Release Notes schedule

Due	Item	Desc	Comment
08-02	Validate beat writers	Send email to F13 beat writers
08-03	Notify Dev Alpha RNs	Send note to dev list that Alpha RNs coming and feature pages or beats should reflect updates	Give developers a chance to comment on their updates, even if no tincluded in major features
08-09	Recruit Beat Writers	Recruit new writers for any orphaned beats	Some beats may be tame enough, or have no features, so they may be left vacant
08-12	Comb feature pages alpha RNs	Go through feature pages merging highlights into beats	Ultimately select the few features to highlight in the one-page of alpha
08-13	Alpha one-page	Create single page release notes for alpha
08-16	Alpha announcement	Work with marketing to generate alpha announcement
08-25	Write unclaimed beats		Perhaps a beta release notes party?
08-25	Remind L10N Beta POTs
08-26	Remind dev wiki freeze	Wiki freeze for beta is Aug 30. Remind Dev the window is closing	Invariably, some developer or another is disappointed that nothing about his app made in into the release notes and the wiki froze by surprise.
08-26	Start nightly POTs
08-31	Port wiki to Publican		This will probably be mostly scripted. Later conversions will be mostly manual, but this first conversion generally benefits from the automation.
09-08	f-r-n.rpm to updates-candidate		Needed some time before docs.fp.o so ready for beta compose
09-16	Send reminder final deadlines
09-20	Beta RNs to docs.fp.o
09-20	Beta announcement	Work with marketing to develop the announcement
09-20	Remind dev wiki freeze
09-21	Prepare GA RNs
09-29	Remind L10N no more POTs	On Oct 4, last POTs will go to L10N so no more source updates
10-04	Wiki updates to Publican
10-04	GA final POTs
10-05	Build GA htmls until 11-Oct		Most likely this is a continuation. Drafts should have been being build automatically on a regular basis
10-07	Remind L10N trans deadline		On 11-Oct we will begin building the release RPM so any translations not ready by then will not make it to GA
10-13	f-r-n.rpm
10-19	GA Announcement
10-25	0-Day RNs to docs.fp.o	Get any changes that did not make it to GA on the the website
10-25	0-day RNs updated RPM
10-26	Tech notes to docs.fp.o
11-01	Updated RNs to updates-candidate