Release Notes schedule

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
2012-03-07	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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