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?
• 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 Update website
  • Release when ready; some window to account for unexpected delays.