NeoOffice 3.0 Release Tasks

Verify that OpenOffice.org does not have a newer tag for version 3.0.x than the OOO300_m14 tag.

Verify that ooo-build does not have a newer tag for version 3.0.x than the OOO_BUILD_3_0_1 branch.

Verify that Novell's patched odf-converter does not have a newer version than 2.5-2 in Novell's odf-converter source repository.

Rebuild all custom NeoOffice code using the existing NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 development builds. Perform a confirming checkout of the HEAD branch and set build to build with a new version and the NeoOffice trademarked product name.

This includes the following steps:

• Do a cvs update -Ad to ensure that you have the latest code in your workspace, verify that none of the files are marked as updated, patched, modified, or have conflicts, and verify that the latest code actually builds through the installer.
• Copy custom.neo.mk file to custom.mk so that the clean checkout will build with the trademarked product names.

• In makefile, change the following macros to the respective values:

  PRODUCT_VERSION_FAMILY=3.0
  PRODUCT_VERSION=3.0
  PREVIOUS_PRODUCT_VERSION=$(PRODUCT_VERSION)
  PRODUCT_DIR_VERSION=3.0
  PRODUCT_PATCH_VERSION=Patch 0
  PRODUCT_DIR_PATCH_VERSION=Patch-0
  NEO_TAG:=-rNeoOffice-3_0
  

• In makefile, reset the patch installer to include the minimum number of files by removing all files add to the build.patch_package_shared make target after the NeoOffice-3_0_Early_Access tag and changing the following macros to the respective values:

  PRODUCT_COMPONENT_PATCH_MODULES=
  

• Delete all build.neo_* files so that all custom NeoOffice and RetroOffice code will be rebuilt.
• Commit makefile changes and invoke make all to rebuild all applicable code and installers.

Verify that none of the NeoOffice Intel build's executables or libraries link to any X11 libraries.

Note: to do this task, install your latest NeoOffice build and, in a terminal, execute the following commands:

sh
cd /Applications/NeoOffice.app/Contents
for i in `find . -name "*.dylib*" -o -name "*.bin"`; do echo $i ; otool -L $i 2>&1 | grep X11; done

If none of the binaries link to any X11 libraries, the above commands will only print a list of files. However, if you see any lines that look similar to the following, the file listed just before this type of line is linked to an X11 library and this must be correct before the NeoOffice binaries can be released.

/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0)

Verify that none of the NeoOffice PowerPC build's executables or libraries link to any X11 libraries.

Note: Use the same steps as used for the matching Intel task.

Tag the code in the HEAD branch with the NeoOffice-3_0 tag using the following:

• Do a cvs update -Ad to ensure that you have the latest code in your workspace, verify that none of the files are marked as updated, patched, modified, or have conflicts, and verify that the latest code actually builds through the installer.
• Tag all files in your workspace by invoking cvs tag NeoOffice-3_0.
• If there are any build errors, fix and commit them, retag the changed files by invoking cvs tag -F NeoOffice-3_0, and repeating the step.

Create releasable NeoOffice 3.0 build for Intel.

Note: the following steps are overkill, but they ensure that all recent changes to the NeoOffice custom code has been built:

• Do a cvs update -d -rNeoOffice-3_0 and verify that none of the files are marked as updated, patched, modified, or have conflicts. If any such errors appear, the previous task (tagging of the workspace) has not been done properly and it needs to done properly before you can proceed with this task.
• Do a cvs update -Ad so that you can do bug fixing and release patches after you create your releasable build
• Delete all build.neo_* and build.odf-converter* files. This will force the installer to rebuild the odf-converter code and all of the NeoOffice custom code without causing any of the OpenOffice.org or ooo-build code to be rebuilt.
• Invoke make all to create the releasable installer and language packs.

Create releasable NeoOffice 3.0 build for PowerPC.

Note: Use the same steps as used for the matching Intel task.

Create backup copy of releasable Intel binaries and upload them to staging server.

The following steps are the steps that I used to create my backup copy:

• Create an empty NeoOffice-3.0 directory outside of the workspace
• Copy all 59 install/*.dmg files from your releasable build into the empty NeoOffice-3.0 directory and chmod 444 *.dmg in that directory

Put the NeoOffice-3.0 folder in a new empty directory and create a CD master NeoOffice-3.0.cdr file of the new directory using the following command:

hdiutil create -srcfolder /path/to/new/directory \
-format UDTO -ov -o /path/to/output/NeoOffice-3.0.cdr

Create backup copy of releasable PowerPC binaries and upload them to staging server.

Note: Use the same steps as used for the matching Intel task.

Verify that the releasable installer and one or more language packs install and run on Intel for the following Mac OS X versions:

• 10.4.11
• 10.5.6

Verify that the releasable installer and one or more language packs install and run on PowerPC for the following Mac OS X versions:

• 10.4.11
• 10.5.6

Verify that the releasable installer does not allow installation on PowerPC for the following Mac OS X versions:

• 10.3.9

Update all NeoOffice and version names, file URLs, and patch version names in all of the files in the www-test.neooffice.org server's neojava directory.

Note: I used the following steps to do this:

• Manually edit the /neojava/includes/globals.php page and set the following variables to the following values:

$earlyaccessdownloadenabled = true;
$earlyaccessredirectenabled = false;
$earlyaccessfreeproduct = 'NeoOffice 3.0';
$earlyaccessproductversion = '3.0';
$earlyaccessproductfamily[0] = '3.0 Early Access';
$earlyaccessproductfamily[1] = '3.0 Early Access 2';
$earlyaccesslangpackfilebase = $earlyaccessproductfilebase;
$earlyaccesspatch = '';

• Manually edit all of the earlyaccessdownload.php pages in the /neojava directory and put the "not a production release" warning a "if ($earlyaccessfreeproduct != $earlyaccessproduct)" section.
• After you verify that the changes look correct, invoke the following command to commit your changes: cvs commit ; chmod -Rf ug+rw .[ch]* *

Update all NeoOffice and version names, file URLs, and patch version names in all of the files in the www-test.neooffice.org server's neojava directory.

Note: I used the following steps to do this:

• Manually edit the /neojava/includes/globals.php page and set the following variables to the following values and delete all but the zero'th element of $earlyaccessproductfamily:

$earlyaccessdownloadenabled = false;
$earlyaccessredirectenabled = true;
$earlyaccessproductfamily[0] = '';
$currentproductversion = '3.0';
$currentoooversion = '3.0.1';
$currentproductfamily[0] = '3.0 Early Access';
$currentproductfamily[1] = '3.0 Early Access 2';
$currentpatch = '';

• Manually edit all of the header.html pages in the /neojava directory and update the text in the news banner section.
• After you verify that the changes look correct, invoke the following command to commit your changes: cvs commit ; chmod -Rf ug+rw .[ch]* *

Merge the NeoOffice 3.0 language pack changes. Note: I used the following steps to do this:

• Manually replace the Language Pack Downloads section in each of the langpackdownload.php files in the /neojava directory with the section from the matching earlyaccesslangpackdownload.php file and replace any occurrences of earlyaccess with current and any occurrences of langpackfilebase with productfilebase.
• Manually edit all of the download.php and maindownload.php pages in the /neojava directory and change the number of language packs from 56 to 58.
• Update the minimum required Mac OS X version by manually editing all of the download.php pages in the /neojava directory and change all occurrences of Mac OS X 10.3 to Mac OS X 10.4.
• Manually edit all of the feature.php</tt. pages in the <tt>/neojava directory and merge any unique wording in the matching earlyaccessfeatures.php pages.
• After you verify that the changes look correct, invoke the following command to commit your changes: cvs commit ; chmod -Rf ug+rw .[ch]* *

Enable the BitTorrent links using the following steps:

• Obtain the 2 NeoOffice-3.0-*.torrent files from the mirrors.freesmug.org mirror maintainer and cvs add these 2 files in the www-test.neooffice.org website's /neojava/downloads directory.
• After you verify the that changes look correct, invoke the following command to commit your changes: cvs commit ; chmod -Rf ug+rw .htaccess *

Close all bugs with a status of "Resolved" by setting the following field values:

• Set "Status" field to "Closed"
• Set "Resolution" field to "Fixed"
• Set "Target Version" field to "3.0"
• Set "Closed in Version" field to "3.0"

Close any bugs with a status of "Assigned" or "Reopened" and resolution of "Fixed" (bugs fixed in the release build after the final patch) by setting the following field values:

• Set "Status" field to "Closed"
• Set "Resolution" field to "Fixed"
• Set "Target Version" field to "3.0"
• Set "Closed in Version" field to "3.0"

Create a new category in the donations database that has a start date and time that is a few hours before the planned release time to ensure that donors who donate after we make the NeoOffice 3.0 binaries downloadable get their donation credited to the next Early Access Program using the following steps:

• Login to the www.neooffice.org server, cd to the /neojava/donationsadmin directory, and execute the following command to add a new category:

  ./manage_categories.php -a
  

• Set the category_name to Next Planned NeoOffice Early Access Program Membership, the mc_gross_* amounts to the same amounts that were used for the current NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access Program Membership category, start_date to 2009-03-30, end date to 2010-12-31, and enabled to 1
• Run the command again and set the category_name to Next Planned NeoOffice 3.x Early Access Program Subscription, the mc_gross_* amounts to the same amounts that were used for the current NeoOffice 3.x Early Access Program Subscription category, start_date to 2009-03-30, end date to 2010-12-31, and enabled to 1

Synchronize the donation's database to PayPal's database to ensure that none of the donors' transactions are missing and to pick up any e-mail address changes made by donors during the period using the following steps:

• Login to PayPal, click on the History tab, click on Download My History link, select Custom Date Range, enter the day before the start of the current Early Access Program as the "From" date and the current date as the "To" date, and "Comma Delimited - All Activity" as the "File Types to Download".
• It will take some time for PayPal to prepare the file. Once the file is ready, download it and use sftp to copy it to the www.neooffice.org server. Note: be sure to delete your local copy.
• Once the history file is on the www.neooffice.org server, login to the server, cd to the /donationsadmin directory, and execute the following command to import the history file:

  sh
  ./import_paypal_transaction_history.php /path/to/history/file 2>/path/to/error/file
  

• Inspect the entries in the error file created in the previous command and verify that none of the rejected lines from the file are donor transactions.