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Task

Due Date

Status

PM

KC

Set up Release Plan team meeting(s)

6/16

DONE

Eng

KC

Communicate code freeze to developer list (template), and release schedule to community

6/17

DONE

Eng

VMH

Create release branch in source control

 

DONE

Eng

VMH

Add build/deploy of release branch on continuous integration server

 

DONE

QA

LC

Begin functional testing of Initial Testing Candidate build

6/17

Waiting for fix 4948

All

KC

Scrub bug list during general bug triage meeting; fixing only show-stoppers after this point

6/20

 

Eng

JS

Bump artifact versions in Maven POMs to next release. Rev module versions on head/master and plugins/master

6/21

(tick) DONE (by AM)

Eng

JS

Double-check licenses of any 3rd party libraries added since last release

6/21
 

(tick) DONE (all new 3rd party items like jetty, liquibase, webdriver are licensed under Apache 2.0)

Eng

JS

Update release-upgrades.txt so correct db schema version name appears on sysinfo page

6/21

 

PM

KC

Revisit release packaging - Documentation (if any new or removed docs, actual content revisited later)

6/21

 

PM

JS

Revisit/define default configuration to ship with product (local.properties)

6/21

 

Eng

JS

Update Install File bundled in zip (INSTALL in top level of source control. Update Upgrade instructions (note changes in hardware/software and specific versions to upgrade to, also special upgrade procedures)

6/23

 

PM

KC

Update Configuration guide, Update custom properties that ships with Mifos with new additions

6/23

 

Eng

JS

Update System Recommendations, Client Machine Recommendations

6/23

 

Eng

JS

Update Developer Documentation (any changes in dev environment, etc)

6/23

 

PM

KC

Update and Complete Release Notes, Upgrade Instructions

6/28

 

PM

KC

Update Functional Specs (UpdateinFS bugs, any new or updated features)

6/28

 

Eng

JS

Final Release Candidate build ready - no changes allowed after this date

6/28

 

Eng

JS

Identify final release candidate (binary release Zip File with Installation Doc, War file, and supporting code). Note: binary release .zip files are automatically generated with every release branch build. Make sure language files are included

6/28

 

QA

LC

Confirm all translations are in package and mifos runs in FR, SP, CN

6/29

 

QA

LC

Testing of Release Candidate Complete, give go-ahead (do diff w/ previous release)

6/29

 

Biz

EC

Create Draft announcement for mifos.org

6/30


PM

KC

Create Draft announcement for community

6/30


Biz

ET

Create Draft announcement for customers

6/30

 

PM

KC

Final Documentation ready (release notes, install doc, etc)

6/30


PM

KC

Mark versions in Jira as released

7/1

 

QA

LC

Test Download, release notes pre-release page

6/30


Eng

 

Release Day: see below

7/1

 

QA

LC

Report Test results and risks

 

 

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