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=Fedora 14 Release Notes Schedule=
=Fedora 17 Release Notes Schedule=


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|<center> 08-02 </center>|| Validate beat writers || Note to Docs list followed by email to F13 beat writers || (Completed 7/29 [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]])
|<center>2012-02-12</center>
!style="background-color:firebrick; color:cornsilk;"| open beats for F17 ||| Clear out old beat content, replace with Doce_beat_open template
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|<center> 08-03 </center>|| 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 not included in major features
| <center>2012-02-13</center>  
(Completed 8/3 [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]])
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Validate Former Beat Writers || Note to Docs list followed by email to F16 beat writers ||  
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|<center> 08-09 </center>|| Recruit Beat Writers || Recruit new writers for any orphaned beats || Plan is to post requests to dev list, blog. Then email potential candidates for specific beats discovered by mining review requests. Some beats may be tame enough, or have no features, so they may be left vacant.
| <center>2012-02-14</center>
(8/3 - Posts to Facebook, Multiply Linux group - [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]])
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Notify Development About Alpha Release Notes ||  ||  
(8/6 - Blog to Planet [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]])
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|<center> 08-12 </center>|| 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
| <center>2012-02-14</center>
([[User:Nathant| Nathan Thomas]] provided a draft 12-Aug)
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|Start Alpha Beat and Feature Page Review
([[User:Jjmcd|--McD]] Provided updated tech notes to mine)
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|<center> 08-16 </center>|| Alpha announcement || Work with marketing to generate alpha announcement ||([[User:Nathant| Nathan Thomas]] provided a draft 12-Aug)
| <center>2012-02-16</center>  
([[User:Rbergero| Robyn Bergeron]] and [[User:Pfrields| stickster]] reviewed 19-Aug)
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Comb Beats and Feature Pages for Alpha || Go through feature pages merging highlights into beats  || Ultimately select the few features to highlight in the one-page of alpha
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|<center> 08-20 </center>|| Alpha one-page || Create single page release notes for alpha || ([[User:Nathant| Nathan Thomas]] had this largely complete by 8/15. On 8/22, the day before release [[User:Jjmcd| jjmcd]] removed the "draft" admonition.)
| <center>2012-02-20</center>
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Recruit New Beat Writers || Recruit new writers for any orphaned beats  || Plan is to post requests to dev list, blog. Then email potential candidates for specific beats discovered by mining review requests. Some beats may be tame enough, or have no features, so they may be left vacant.  
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|<center> 09-01 </center>|| Write unclaimed beats || || Perhaps a beta release notes party?
| <center>2012-02-23</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Fedora 17 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting
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|<center> 09-01 </center>|| Remind L10N Beta POTs || ||
| <center>2012-02-24</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page) || Create single page release notes for alpha  ||  
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|<center> 09-01 </center>|| Remind dev wiki freeze || Wiki freeze for beta is Sep 6. 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.
| <center>2012-02-27</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing & Docs) || ||  
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|<center> 09-02 </center>|| Start nightly POTs || || Started 09-06 [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]] (didn't make much sense to start this before the wiki conversion was done)
| <center>2012-02-27</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Post Alpha Release Notes One-Page || ||  
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|<center> 09-07 </center>|| 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.  Done 09-06 [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]]
| <center>2012-02-28</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Alpha Public Availability
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|<center> 09-15 </center>|| f-r-n.rpm to updates-candidate || || Needed some time before docs.fp.o so ready for beta compose - Done [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]]
| <center>2012-02-29</center>
!style="background-color:firebrick; color:cornsilk;"| Tech Notes || Generate Fedora Technical Notes based on Alpha repo || Needed by beat writers
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|<center> 09-27 </center>|| Beta RNs to docs.fp.o || ||
| <center>2012-03-07</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Write Unclaimed Wiki Beats || || Perhaps a beta release notes party?
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|<center> 09-27 </center>|| Remind dev wiki freeze || || Done [[User:Jjmcd|--McD]]
| <center>2012-03-07</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Remind Translation: Beta Rel Notes POT Coming || ||  
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|<center> 10-06 </center>|| Remind L10N no more POTs || On Oct 4, last POTs will go to L10N so no more source updates ||
| <center>2012-03-08</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Remind announce-list & f-devel-announce: Wiki Freeze || Wiki freeze for beta is Mar 12. 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.
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|<center> 10-11 </center>|| Wiki updates to Publican || ||
| <center>2012-03-09</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Reminder to Trans that new POT files are coming for all guides || ||  
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|<center> 10-11 </center>|| GA final POTs || ||
| <center>2012-03-12</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|Wiki Freeze: Beta Release Notes
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|<center> 10-12 </center>|| Build GA htmls until 11-Oct || || Most likely this is a continuation. Drafts should have been being build automatically on a regular basis
| <center>2012-03-13</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| 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.  
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|<center> 10-14 </center>|| 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
| <center>2012-03-14</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|Start nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content
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|<center> 10-20 </center>|| f-r-n.rpm || ||
| <center>2012-03-19</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Ongoing build translation review htmls || ||  
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|<center> 10-20 </center>|| GA Announcement || ||
| <center>2012-03-19</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|Translation Deadline: Beta Release Notes (PO Files complete)
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|<center> 11-01 </center>|| 0-Day RNs to docs.fp.o || Get any changes that did not make it to GA on the the website ||
| <center>2012-03-20</center>  
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Reminder to Trans that Final Guides POT files are coming || On Apr 9, last POTs will go to L10N so no more source updates  ||  
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|<center> 11-01 </center>|| 0-day RNs updated RPM || ||
| <center>2012-03-20</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Beta Change Deadline
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|<center> 11-02 </center>|| Tech notes to docs.fp.o || ||
| <center>2012-03-20</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Features 100% Complete Deadline
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|<center> 11-08 </center>|| Updated RNs to updates-candidate || ||
| <center>2012-03-21</center>
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Build f-r-n.rpm and Push to updates-candidate ||  || Needed some time before docs.fp.o so ready for beta compose
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| <center>2012-03-29</center>
|style="background-color:slateblue;"| Reminder: Send Project Wide-Final Release Notes Deadlines ||  ||
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| <center>2012-03-29</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Fedora 17 Beta Release Readiness Meeting
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| <center>2012-04-02</center> || Generate nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-02</center> || Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing) ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-02</center> || Reminder to Development: Wiki Freeze in 7 days ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-02</center> || Build and Post Beta release-notes to docs.fedoraproject.org ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-02</center> || Build and Post Fedora Technical Notes to docs.fedoraproject.org ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-03</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Beta Release Public Availability
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| <center>2012-04-03</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|Prepare GA Release Notes
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| <center>2012-04-09</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:lightcyan;"|String Freeze: GA Release Notes
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| <center>2012-04-11</center> || Remind Translation: RPM Freeze (no more POTs) in 5 days ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-16</center> || Port diff wiki content to Publican ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-16</center> || Generate GA Release Notes POT files for Translation ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-19</center> || Remind Translators of GA Release Notes Deadline in 4 days ||  || Apr 23 we will begin building the release RPM so any translations not ready by then will not make it to GA
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| <center>2012-04-23</center> || Review and correct GA Release Notes (daily builds html) ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-23</center> || Build GA release note htmls for Translation ||  ||  Most likely this is a continuation. Drafts should have been being build automatically on a regular basis
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| <center>2012-04-25</center> || Build fedora-release-notes.rpm ||  ||
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| <center>2012-04-30</center> || Create GA Announcement (Docs & Marketing) ||  ||
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| <center>2012-05-01</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go Meeting (17:00 US Eeastern)
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| <center>2012-05-03</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Fedora 17 Final Release Readiness Meeting
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| <center>2012-05-07</center> || 0-Day rel-notes build updated rpm ||  ||
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| <center>2012-05-07</center> || 0-Day rel-notes update docs.fp.org || Get any changes that did not make it to GA on the the website  ||
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| <center>2012-05-07</center> || 0-Day rel-notes generate POT ||  ||
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| <center>2012-05-07</center> || Add translated zero-day updates to docs.fp.org ||  ||
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| <center>2012-05-07</center>
!style="background-color:firebrick; color:cornsilk;"| Update redirect || make d.fp.o/release-notes point to en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/index.html.  || ssh bastion, puppet01, cd puppet/modules/fedora-docs/files, git pull, emacs redirects.conf, commit, push
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| <center>2012-05-08</center>
!colspan="3" style="background-color:pink;"|Final (GA) Release
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| <center>2012-05-08</center> || Update and post Fedora Technical Notes to docs.fedoraproject.org ||  ||
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| <center>2012-05-14</center> || Push updated rel-notes RPMs to Updates repo || ||  
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Fedora 17 Release Notes Schedule

Due Item Desc Comment
2012-02-12
open beats for F17 Clear out old beat content, replace with Doce_beat_open template
2012-02-13
Validate Former Beat Writers Note to Docs list followed by email to F16 beat writers
2012-02-14
Notify Development About Alpha Release Notes
2012-02-14
Start Alpha Beat and Feature Page Review
2012-02-16
Comb Beats and Feature Pages for Alpha Go through feature pages merging highlights into beats Ultimately select the few features to highlight in the one-page of alpha
2012-02-20
Recruit New Beat Writers Recruit new writers for any orphaned beats Plan is to post requests to dev list, blog. Then email potential candidates for specific beats discovered by mining review requests. Some beats may be tame enough, or have no features, so they may be left vacant.
2012-02-23
Fedora 17 Alpha Release Readiness Meeting
2012-02-24
Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page) Create single page release notes for alpha
2012-02-27
Create Alpha Announcement (Marketing & Docs)
2012-02-27
Post Alpha Release Notes One-Page
2012-02-28
Alpha Public Availability
2012-02-29
Tech Notes Generate Fedora Technical Notes based on Alpha repo Needed by beat writers
2012-03-07
Write Unclaimed Wiki Beats Perhaps a beta release notes party?
2012-03-07
Remind Translation: Beta Rel Notes POT Coming
2012-03-08
Remind announce-list & f-devel-announce: Wiki Freeze Wiki freeze for beta is Mar 12. 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.
2012-03-09
Reminder to Trans that new POT files are coming for all guides
2012-03-12
Wiki Freeze: Beta Release Notes
2012-03-13
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.
2012-03-14
Start nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content
2012-03-19
Ongoing build translation review htmls
2012-03-19
Translation Deadline: Beta Release Notes (PO Files complete)
2012-03-20
Reminder to Trans that Final Guides POT files are coming On Apr 9, last POTs will go to L10N so no more source updates
2012-03-20
Beta Change Deadline
2012-03-20
Features 100% Complete Deadline
2012-03-21
Build f-r-n.rpm and Push to updates-candidate Needed some time before docs.fp.o so ready for beta compose
2012-03-29
Reminder: Send Project Wide-Final Release Notes Deadlines
2012-03-29
Fedora 17 Beta Release Readiness Meeting
2012-04-02
Generate nightly POT files all fed-rel-notes.rpm content
2012-04-02
Create Beta Announcement (Docs & Marketing)
2012-04-02
Reminder to Development: Wiki Freeze in 7 days
2012-04-02
Build and Post Beta release-notes to docs.fedoraproject.org
2012-04-02
Build and Post Fedora Technical Notes to docs.fedoraproject.org
2012-04-03
Beta Release Public Availability
2012-04-03
Prepare GA Release Notes
2012-04-09
String Freeze: GA Release Notes
2012-04-11
Remind Translation: RPM Freeze (no more POTs) in 5 days
2012-04-16
Port diff wiki content to Publican
2012-04-16
Generate GA Release Notes POT files for Translation
2012-04-19
Remind Translators of GA Release Notes Deadline in 4 days Apr 23 we will begin building the release RPM so any translations not ready by then will not make it to GA
2012-04-23
Review and correct GA Release Notes (daily builds html)
2012-04-23
Build GA release note htmls for Translation Most likely this is a continuation. Drafts should have been being build automatically on a regular basis
2012-04-25
Build fedora-release-notes.rpm
2012-04-30
Create GA Announcement (Docs & Marketing)
2012-05-01
Fedora 17 Final Go/No-Go Meeting (17:00 US Eeastern)
2012-05-03
Fedora 17 Final Release Readiness Meeting
2012-05-07
0-Day rel-notes build updated rpm
2012-05-07
0-Day rel-notes update docs.fp.org Get any changes that did not make it to GA on the the website
2012-05-07
0-Day rel-notes generate POT
2012-05-07
Add translated zero-day updates to docs.fp.org
2012-05-07
Update redirect make d.fp.o/release-notes point to en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/index.html. ssh bastion, puppet01, cd puppet/modules/fedora-docs/files, git pull, emacs redirects.conf, commit, push
2012-05-08
Final (GA) Release
2012-05-08
Update and post Fedora Technical Notes to docs.fedoraproject.org
2012-05-14
Push updated rel-notes RPMs to Updates repo

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