wiki:R1/Beta5/Timeline

R1/beta5 Timeline

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

  • 22 July - 29 July: 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.
  • 29 July: branch!
    • Sysadmin Branch r1beta5
    • Policy r1beta5 branch bug fix only!
    • Sysadmin Add r1beta5 to concourse
    • Sysadmin Concourse and Buildmaster should be generating r1beta5 TCs when forced.
    • Sysadmin No haikuports branch, not enough infrastructure. We didn't branch Haikuports for prior releases
    • Sysadmin Generate an image and name it "Test Candidate 0"
    • Sysadmin Upgrade HaikuPorter Buildmaster to beta branch TC0 image
    • ICU upgrades?
    • openssl3 update? And required updates of curl, webkit, etc to match.
  • 30 July - 13 August: two weeks of xtreme testing
    • Sysadmin Generate additional "Test Candidate" images as needed for testing.
    • Development Work on fixing 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.
  • 13 August - 20 August: one week to "get the goods"
  • 20 August - 27 August: one week of ham-fisting final images
    • Promotion team physical CD's or USB sticks?
    • Sysadmin Rename your latest release candidate to r1beta5, move from haiku-r1beta5/XXX to haiku-release/r1beta5/
    • 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-r1b5
    • Sysadmin Update website
    • Release when ready; some window to account for unexpected delays.
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