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Code | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||||||
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Appoint Release Manager | Jim Jagielski | Replaced Ariel Constenla-Haile who had taken care of the early stages of 4.1.4 | |||||||||
Propose string/localization updates | Ariel Constenla-Haile | Particular language changes are considered for 4.1.4 | |||||||||
Propose dictionary updates | Matthias Seidel | See release notes for the list of updated dictionaries | |||||||||
Select bugfixes and enhancements | All | Anyone can propose a blocker either using the "4.1.4 Release Blocker" flag in Bugzilla or writing to the dev list | |||||||||
Decide on the proposed release blocker | Jim Jagielski | This is done only by the Release Manager | |||||||||
Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements | All | ||||||||||
Build | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||||||
Buildbots | - | - | - | Buildbots available for: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD. macOS still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds) | |||||||
Windows 32-bit builds | Matthias Seidel |
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macOS 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||||||||
Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||||||||
Source builds | Jim Jagielski | ||||||||||
Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) | |||||||||||
Vote on Release Candidate | Jim Jagielski | ||||||||||
Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) | Jim Jagielski | ||||||||||
Upload builds to SF mirrors | Andrea Pescetti | Copy requires just a few hours, with the normal rsync instructions shown; note: project name has changed since 4.1.2 and now the rsync target must be written as Make sure it's going into a "staged" drectory | |||||||||
Move builds to ASF Dist server (dist area) | Jim Jagielski | Jim forgot to warn Infra. Changed How to Cook a Release to better remind people. | |||||||||
Make sure builds are on the ASF Archive server | Jim Jagielski | Hash files must not be stored on public servers but only on ASF servers | |||||||||
Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | Open | Marcus Lange | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | ||||||||
Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo414 area |
| Open | ? | The update notification will create a high load on the mirror servers as a lot of users will then update their AOO installation. This must be avoided. Therefore this task has to be done always some days after the release. | |||||||
QA | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||||||
Generic QA | All | ||||||||||
Specific QA focused on the selected bugfixes/enhancements | All | ||||||||||
Communication | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | ||||||
Blog post: First status update and call for volunteers on dev@ mailing list | not | Not done | Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | ? | |||||||
Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | Draft | Keith McKenna | Keith: Base note created via template Marcus: Further work, see here: Release Notes | ||||||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | Heads-Up sent to Joerg Schmidt (de) | Marcus Lange | Done by private mail | ||||||||
Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | Draft saved in Wiki and sent to Sally | Marcus Lange | Working together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | ||||||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes | de:
nl: | In Progress | Done by private mail | ||||||||
Website: Update the main AOO test download page | Open | Marcus Lange | Test if the download links are working (binaries, hash files, release notes, etc.) | ||||||||
Website: Update the main AOO download page | Open | Marcus Lange | After the test was successful, do the changes in the Life-System | ||||||||
Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download | Open | Marcus Lange | This is the https://openoffice.apache.org/ website. | ||||||||
Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | Open | ? | Here the large blue headline with "Apache OpenOffice X.Y.Z released" is meant. | ||||||||
Website: Update the ASF project information | Open | Marcus Lange | The DOAP RDF data needs to be updated. | ||||||||
Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | Open | Marcus Lange | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | ||||||||
Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | Draft saved in Roller | Marcus Lange | |||||||||
Announcement: Prepare Apache Press ReleaseWrite official announcement for announce@ | Draft saved in Wiki and sent to Sallylocal mail inbox | Marcus Lange | Working together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | ||||||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized press release | Heads-Up sent to Joerg Schmidt (de) | Marcus Lange | Done by private mail | ||||||||
Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo414 area | Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@
| Open | Marcus Lange | ? | The update notification will create a high load on the mirror servers as a lot of users will then update their AOO installation. This must be avoided. Therefore this task has to be done always some days after the release. |
Stay Informed
The best channels for accurate information about the release progress are:
- The development mailing list archives
- The Apache OpenOffice official blog
- The Subversion branch where the development is actually done