R1/beta3 Timeline

Approved: This has been approved after a 7 day RFC period on the mailing list.

Small changes may happen, but this is our target!

A lot of these actions will be coordinated by the release coordinator and a sysadmin.

Update: July 11th - I'm choosing to bump the target day for the release by one week. This will give additional time for bug squashing in WebPositive.

• DONE 13 June - 20 June: one week - last minute scramble.
  • Policy Don't commit anything risky.
  • Promotion team begin investigating physical CD's or USB sticks?
  • Policy "Soft" strings freeze begins.
  • Testing Testing starts ramping up.
• 21 June - June 25: branch r1beta3!
  • DONE Sysadmin Branch r1beta3
  • DONE Policy r1beta3 branch bug fix only!
  • DONE Sysadmin Add r1beta3 to concourse
  • DONE Sysadmin Concourse and Buildmaster should be generating r1beta3 TCs when forced.
  • DONE Sysadmin Don't forget about HaikuPorts! We didn't branch Haikuports for r1beta2
  • DONE Sysadmin Generate an image and name it "Test Candidate 0"
  • Sysadmin Upgrade Haikuporter Buildmaster to a R1 / Beta 3 branch TC0 image
  • ICU upgrades?, build new webkit?
  • Opened logo contest for installer logo
• 26 June - 17 July: two weeks of xtreme testing
  • Sysadmin Generate additional "Test Candidate" images as needed for testing.
  • Development Work on fixing final WebPositive rendering issues.
  • Testing All hands on deck testing of test images.
  • Unless any unfixable showstoppers are found, don't halt the release.
  • Do general polishing of release notes, website, etc. during this time.
• 17 July - 24 July: one week to "get the goods"
  • One final strings synchronization
  • Sysadmin Generate an image and name it "Release Candidate 0".
  • Begin work on draft ​https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-r1b3 page (Draft = true)
  • MOAR TESTING!
• 24 July - 31 July: one week of ham-fisting final images
  • Promotion team physical CD's or USB sticks?
  • Sysadmin Rename your latest release candidate to r1beta3, move from haiku-r1beta3/XXX to haiku-release/r1beta3/
  • Sysadmin Double and triple check sha256 sums
  • Sysadmin Generate a torrent, begin seeding and get a few other people to seed.
  • Sysadmin Give a few hours for release to make it to the mirrors.
    • Sysadmin Force a sync to Wasabi
      • DO not advertise final release images on Wasabi.. too much bandwidth.
    • Sysadmin Sync up working mirrors and release-r1b3
  • Sysadmin Push final images to IPFS repos and alert folks pinning to repin
    • Sysadmin Pin R1 / Beta 3 release folder CID on Pinata
  • Sysadmin Update website
    • Drop Draft on release-r1b3 page
    • get-haiku _index should become release-r1b1
    • release-r1b3 should become get-haiku_index
  • Release when ready; some window to account for unexpected delays.