OOoRelease30

OOo 3.0

• first translation handover: January 18th, 2008
• UI and Feature_freeze: March 6th, 2008
• Translation update 3.0 start: March 13th, 2008

OOo 3.0 Beta

• Translation update 3.0 delivery: April 3rd, 2008, code freeze for Beta
• Code Freeze: April 3rd, 2008
• begin TCM sanity testing: April 10th, 2008
• "last cws integration" for Beta: April 17th, 2008
  • draft for OOo 3.0 Readme
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: April 30th, 2008
• TCM Beta testing: May 5th - 26th, 2008

There is the Meta issue 87736 to track the potential stoppers for the beta release. If anyone would like to raise an issue for the release, please add the issue id of the issue you want to raise as dependent issue to the Meta Issue and drop a note on releases@openoffice.org, that and why you want to declare that issue as a stopper for releases.

Please note that there is no special IZ target and no cws target for the Beta release. The branch "BEA300" for the 3.0 Beta release will be opened in the week of April 7th to 11th once the childworkspace <changefileheader> has been integrated. Only stoppers for the Beta release will get accepted on that branch.

please also see ReleaseStatus_Minutes#Agenda_for_next_meeting for decision making.

Release Plan for 3.0.0 Beta release

Task	Who	Deadline	Comments
last cws integration for Beta build / BEA300_mx	mh, RE
release notes	mh, ja		'final release' release notes to be provided by Erwin
Setup Guides
Upload of Beta build	ja		full install sets for: en-US da de es fr it ja nl ko pl ru sv pt-BR zh-CN zh-TW gl language packs for: af ar as-IN be-BY bg br bs ca cs da de dz el en-GB en-ZA es et fi fr ga gu he hi-IN hr hu it ja ka km ko lt mk ml-IN mr-IN nb ne nl nn nr ns or-IN pa-IN pl pt pt-BR rw sh sk sl sr ss st sv sw-TZ ta te-IN tg th ti-ER tr ts uk ur-IN ve vi xh zh-CN zh-TW zu
Trigger QA of final builds	ja
Track Status of localized builds	ja		www.qatrack.org/ooo/view.php
Publish status of automated GUI testing	wg
Update of Beta pages	ja
QA of English Beta builds	ja
Update of SDK	ja
Update of URE	ja
Update of SDK Release Notes and update of redirect page download.openoffice.org/sdk.html	jsc/ja
Upload of src tarballs	ja
msg to announce@ooo content	louis
	ja
download pages	ja
upload of solver tarballs	ja
notification of mirrors	ja
Update of Bittorrents	(mike!)
Update of P2P page	antbryan
press kit update	jpmcc/lsp
press release/alert	jpmcc
homepage	louis
release	all

OOo 3.0 Final

• UI string fixes: June 5th, 2008
• code_freeze, last regular translation delivery: July 4th, 2008
• Last cws integration for fixes: July 18th, 2008
• release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
• Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid September ?

Download these events as an iCal-File: Media:Ooo3-events-2008.doc. (Rename to .ics after download)