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Team Owner | Indiv Owner | Task | Due Date | Status |
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PM | LC | Set up Release Plan team meeting(s) | 01/03 | |
Eng | JS | Communicate code freeze to developer list (template), and release schedule to community | 01/03 | |
Eng | JS | Create release branch in source control | - | |
Eng | JS | Add build/deploy of release branch on continuous integration server | - | |
QA | LC | Begin functional testing of Initial Testing Candidate build | 01/04 | |
All | JS | Scrub bug list during general bug triage meeting; fixing only show-stoppers after this point | 01/04 | |
Eng | JS | Bump artifact versions in Maven POMs to next release. Rev module versions on head/master and plugins/master | - | |
Eng | JS | Double-check licenses of any 3rd party libraries added since last release | - | |
Eng | JS | Update release-upgrades.txt so correct db schema version name appears on sysinfo page. Tag release with appropriate version number. | - | |
PM | JS | Revisit release packaging - Documentation (if any new or removed docs, actual content revisited later) | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Revisit/define default configuration to ship with product (local.properties) | 01/04 | |
Eng | JS | Update Install File bundled in zip (INSTALL in top level of source control) | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Update Configuration guide, Update custom properties that ships with Mifos with new additions | 01/04 | |
Eng | JS | Update System Recommendations, Client Machine Recommendations | 01/04 | |
Eng | JS | Update Developer Documentation (any changes in dev environment, etc) | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Update and Complete Release Notes, Upgrade Instructions (note changes in hardware/software and specific versions to upgrade to, also special upgrade procedures) | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Update Functional Specs (UpdateinFS bugs, any new or updated features) | 01/04 | |
Eng | JS | Final Release Candidate build ready - no changes allowed after this date | 01/04 | |
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 | 01/04 | |
QA | LC | Confirm all translations are in package and mifos runs in FR, SP, CN | 01/04 | |
QA | LC | Testing of Release Candidate Complete, give go-ahead (do diff w/ previous release) | 01/04 | |
Biz | EC | Create Draft announcement for mifos.org | 01/04 | |
PM | EC | Create Draft announcement for community | 01/04 | |
Biz | EC | Create Draft announcement for customers | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Final Documentation ready (release notes, install doc, etc) | 01/04 | |
PM | JS | Mark versions in Jira as released | 01/04 | |
QA | LC | Test Download, release notes pre-release page | 01/04 | |
Biz | EC | Update links on mifos.org (download page, download form - 2 links, and homepage block) | 01/04 | |
Eng |
| Release Day: see below | 01/04 |
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QA | LC | Report Test results and risks | 01/04 | |
Release Day
Team Owner | Indiv Owner | Task | Status |
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Eng | JS | Upload Release Binary Zip | |
QA | LC | Test Live Download | |
All | EC | Announce Release on mifos.org | |
PM/Eng | EC | Announce Release on functional, developer, and user lists | |
Biz | EC | Announce on Social Media | |
PM/Eng | EC | Announce Release on Sourceforge |
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Biz | EC | Announce Release internally at GF |
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All |
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Owner | Task | Due Date | Status |
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Biz | info on Mifos.org |
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QA | update demo server |
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EC | update User Manual |
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All | Post Mortem |
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JS | tag release | 01/03 04 | |
JJ | Notify customers of new release, including any updates to upgrade |
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