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.
- Sysadmin Branch
- 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"
- 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 page (Draft = true)
- MOAR TESTING!
- 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 Force a sync to Wasabi
- Sysadmin Update website
- Release when ready; some window to account for unexpected delays.
Last modified
3 months ago
Last modified on Aug 8, 2024, 11:30:30 AM
Note:
See TracWiki
for help on using the wiki.