The purpose of the following table is to provide a schedule plan for a new release planning.
It is desired for a new major release (x.y like 4.1) but it could be also used for a minor release (x.y.z like 4.1.1).
Important:
Please do not fill the template with data for a new release but copy & paste it and create a new page.
Phases and steps in schedule | Date | Responsible | Comment |
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Feature freeze | |||
| ? | Committer | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Developer | |
| ? | Developer | |
| ? | Committer | |
String freeze | |||
| ? | NL community | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
Translation phase | |||
| |||
| ? | NL community | |
| ? | NL community | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
Code freeze | |||
| ? | Committer | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | L10N list | |
| ? | All people | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
Beta Release | Date | Responsible | Comment |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | QA | |
| ? | All people | |
| ? | NL community | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | QA | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Committer | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
Release Candidate | Date | Responsible | Comment |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | QA | |
| ? | All people | |
| ? | NL community | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | QA | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
General Availability | Date | Responsible | Comment |
| |||
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Committer | |
| ? | All people | |
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Committer
| |
After release job | |||
| ? | BZ Admin | |
| ? | Developer | |
| ? | Committer | |
? | Committer | ||
| ? | Release Manager | |
| ? | Committer |
[1] Beta Release: Update download scripting (main download area) | Object properties / variables | Value example | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
| BETA_VERSION | "X.Y.Z-Beta" | Add the basic data for the new release. |
| SEL_LANG | "English name", "native name", "ISO code" | Used to fill the drop-down-box. |
| BETA_ACTIVE | 1 | Make the download links for the Beta release visible. |
| release_xyz | For an example please have a look for a previous version. Also look at the comments on top of the file. | Add the data for new languages. Get the file sizes from Sourceforge.net. |
| case "x.y.z" : ... break; | For an example please have a look for a previous version. | |
| DL.language_matrix | See current file. Used in fallback selection based on navigator.language. | |
[2] Release Candidate: | Object properties / variables | Value example | Comment |
| VERSION | "X.Y.Z-Beta" | Add the basic data for the new release. |
| SEL_LANG | "English name", "native name", "ISO code" | Used to fill the drop-down-box. |
| BETA_ACTIVE | -1 | Make the download links for the Beta release invisible. |
| release_xyz | For an example please have a look for a previous version. Also look at the comments on top of the file. | Add the data for new languages. Get the file sizes from Sourceforge.net. |
| case "x.y.z" : ... break; | For an example please have a look for a previous version. | |
| DL.language_matrix | 'ca', 'Catalan', 'Català' | See current file. Used in fallback selection based on navigator.language. |
[3] New Release: Update download scripting (NL download areas) | Object properties / variables | Value example | Comment |
| announce announceurl announcetip | New: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 released! | Change the announcement text and link. |
| l10n.dl_green_box_select_box_language_values | Catalan 4.1.1 | Add new languages with localized strings. They have to be in the same order as they would appear in the main English drop-down-box. Otherwise the wrong language is offered in the download links. Add also new version item. |
| l10n.dl_rel_notes_aoo<xyz>_link | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.1+Release+Notes | Add new link for release notes. |