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Code | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | |||||
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Appoint Release Manager | Jim Jagielski | As per thread on dev@ | ||||||||
Propose string/localization updates | All pertinent bugz blockers closed | |||||||||
Propose dictionary updates | Andrea Pescetti | All pertinent bugz blockers closed | ||||||||
Select bugfixes and enhancements | All | in process | ||||||||
Decide on the proposed release blocker | Jim Jagielski | in process | ||||||||
Provide code for the selected bugfixes/enhancements | All | in process | ||||||||
Build | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | |||||
Buildbots | - | - | - | Buildbots available for: Windows and Linux. macOS still missing but not a blocker (we don't need a buildbot for OS X release builds) | ||||||
Windows 32-bit builds | Matthias Seidel | Build platform: Windows 10 (64bit), because we use Windows 64bit shell extensions | ||||||||
macOS 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | Build server: macOS 10.12 (Sierra w/ Xcode7) | ||||||||
Linux 32-bit and 64-bit builds | Jim Jagielski | CentOS5, both rpm and deb | ||||||||
Source builds | Jim Jagielski | |||||||||
Upload builds to ASF Dist server (dev area) | Since the dev area is an ASF controlled resource, we need to make sure we have the hashes and PGP signatures uploaded with the actual builds. | |||||||||
Vote on Release Candidate | Jim Jagielski | |||||||||
Go / No Go for the release (based on votes and comments) | Jim Jagielski | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Upload builds to SF mirrors | Carl Marcum | 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" directory 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 | ||||||||
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 | - | - | - | |||||||
Wiki: Prepare the Release Notes | 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 | Marcus Lange | Done by private mail | ||||||||
Announcement: Prepare Apache Press Release | - | - | Marcus Lange | - | It was agreed that no press release will be doneWorking together with Sally Khudairi @ Apache, based on Release Notes | |||||
Translation: Give participants a note so that they can create localized release notes |
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Website: Update the main AOO test download page | Marcus Lange | Test if the download links are working (binaries, hash files, release notes, etc.) and the metadata (milestone, build, SVN rev., release date) are correct. | ||||||||
Website: Update the main AOO download page | Marcus Lange | After the test was successful, do the changes in the Life-System. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | ||||||||
Website: Update the project's AOO pages: main and download | Marcus Lange | This is the https://openoffice.apache.org/ website. Test again that the links are working and the metadata is correct. | ||||||||
Website: Link top bar hint to the blog post | Matthias Seidel | Here the large blue headline with "Apache OpenOffice X.Y.Z released" is meant. | ||||||||
Website: Update the ASF project information | Marcus Lange | The DOAP RDF data needs to be updated. | ||||||||
Sourceforge: Update to "Latest Version" | Marcus Lange | Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform | ||||||||
Blog post: Write the announcement to the AOO blog | Marcus Lange | |||||||||
Announcement: Write official announcement for announce@apache.openoffice.org | Marcus Lange | |||||||||
Announcement: Copy the official announcement for announce@apache.org | Marcus Lange | Important | ||||||||
Forward the announcement to dev@ | Marcus Lange | |||||||||
Update Feed: New check.Update for the aoo414 aoo415 area | 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. | |||||||||
Go-Live | Started | Finished | Status | Volunteers | Comments | |||||
The release is live | All |
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