PM

KC

Set up Release Plan team meeting(s)

6/16

Eng

KC

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

6/17

Eng

VMH

Create release branch in source control

Eng

VMH

Add build/deploy of release branch on continuous integration server

QA

LC

Begin functional testing of Initial Testing Candidate build

6/17

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

(by AM)

Eng

JS

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

6/21

(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.  Tag release with appropriate version number.

6/21

N/A (with liquibase there is only a list of upgrades without any specific schema version name)

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

(I updated INSTALL file and also created some stub pages on our wiki)

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

Last commit (done at Fri Jul 1 17:24:44 2011 +0200) is: c23d5c4dbb54815e7e30d4d3c3bcf0d36036e3cc

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

Final release candidate: http://ci.mifos.org/hudson/job/head-g-release-archive/102/org.mifos$mifos-war/artifact/org.mifos/mifos-war/1.9-SNAPSHOT/mifos-v2.2.0.zip

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

Eng

JS

Upload Release Binary Zip

(by VMH)

QA

LC

Test Live Download

All

EC

Announce Release on mifos.org

PM/Eng

KC

Announce Release on functional, developer, and user lists

PM/Eng

VMH

Announce Release on Sourceforge

Biz

JM

Announce Release internally at GF

All

Main:Launch Party

Biz

info on Mifos.org

QA

update demo server

3/9

EC

update User Manual

All

Post Mortem

AM

tag release

JJ

Notify customers of new release, including any updates to upgrade

3/9