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NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta Release Tasks
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This page is an attempt to document all of the tasks required to release NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta. This page is by no means comprehensive, but hopefully as we work through the release process, we will leave behind enough details to make future releases simpler and less error prone.
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Builds
Task | Date Completed | Assigned | Status |
Rebuild all custom NeoOffice code using the existing NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta 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:
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Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Tag the code in the HEAD branch with the NeoOffice-3_2_1_Beta tag using the following steps:
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Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Create releasable NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta build for Intel. Note: the following steps are overkill, but they ensure that all recent changes to the NeoOffice custom code has been built:
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Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
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:
Put the NeoOffice-3.2.1_Beta folder in a new empty directory and create a CD master NeoOffice-3.2.1_Beta.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-3.2.1_Beta.cdr |
Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Verify that the releasable installer and one or more language packs install and run on Intel for the following Mac OS X versions:
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Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Mirrors
NeoOffice's rsync server is hosted on rsync.neooffice.org. Downloads of the current release are restricted to donors but the previous version is requires no donation to download. Our volunteer mirrors obtain the previous version's binaries by nightly runs of the following command on their mirrors:
rsync --archive --delete rsync://rsync.neooffice.org/neojavadownloads/ \ /path/to/NeoOffice/mirror/directory
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Upload the 34 NeoOffice NeoOffice-3.2.1_Beta-*.dmg main installer and language pack files to the rsync.neooffice.org server's /neojava/donordownloads directory using the following steps:
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Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Website
Task | Date Completed | Assigned | Status |
Tag the www.neooffice.org website to avoid modifying production web pages while we modify the web pages in the test website by logging into the www.neooffice.org server, cd to the its webroot directory, and set the tag by invoking the following commands: bin/cvsplusperms.sh tag pre_NeoOffice-3_2_1_Beta ; bin/cvsplusperms.sh update -rpre_NeoOffice-3_2_1_Beta -d | Done | pluby | 07/24/2011 |
Update all NeoOffice and version names, file URLs, and patch version names in all of the files in the www-test-primary.neooffice.org server's neojava directory. Note: I used the following steps to do this:
$newproductdownloadenabled = true; $newproductminosxversion = '10.5'; $newproductversion = '3.2.1 Beta'; $newproductfamily[0] = ''; $newoooversion = '3.1.1'; $newpatch = ''; |
Update the 34 NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta main installer and language pack file sizes and set the patch file size to 0 in the /neojava/includes/globals/newfilesizes.php file and if the changes look correct, invoke the following command to commit your changes: bin/cvsplusperms.sh commit | Done | pluby | 07/26/2011 |
Prepare the NeoOffice_3.2_Beta.html press release file, save it in the www-test-primary.neooffice.org website's /press_releases directory using the following naming format, bin/cvsplusperms.sh add the file, and invoke the following command to commit the new file: bin/cvsplusperms.sh commit | |||
Verify that patch checking works properly by doing the following steps in a NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta installation:
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Release
Generally, we try to time the release when it is early morning of the release date in New Zealand which is the most populous country closest to the international date line. So for this release, 1 August 2011 translates to the early afternoon on 31 July 2011 in California.
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Verify that all mirrors listed for the NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta main installer and language pack links work in the www-test-primary.neooffice.org website's download pages. If any do not work, comment them out in the /neojava/includes/mirrors.php file and invoke the following command: bin/cvsplusperms.sh commit | |||
Make the NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta binaries downloadable from the www.neooffice.org website's download pages by updating the www.neooffice.org website's pages to match what is in the www-test.neooffice.org website's pages. Login into the www.neooffice.org server, cd to the its webroot directory, and invoke the following command: bin/cvsplusperms.sh update -Ad | |||
Make NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta the current version in the NeoWiki using the following steps:
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Add the NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta MD5 checksums to the NeoOffice MD5 checksums page. | Done | pluby | 07/26/2011 |
Add "3.2.1 Beta" version in Bugzilla. | Done | pluby | 07/27/2011 |
Close all bugs with a status of "Resolved" by setting the following field values:
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Close any bugs with a status of "Assigned" or "Reopened" and resolution of "Fixed" by setting the following field values:
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Set the minimum donation level for the NeoOffice Beta Support forum to the amount on the NeoOffice Donations page and add the Beta date range in the description. | |||
Post the press release as an article on the Trinity news page. Note: be sure to change the language field from "English" to "All" in when submitting the article so that all Trinity users will see the article. | |||
Post a release announcement to this Trinity forum topic and this Trinity forum topic so that the news is included in the RSS feed. | |||
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 last year using the following steps:
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