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Eclipse Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) Endgame Plan

Status

September 12-16, 2016 - Quiet week.

Detailed Timeline

July 2016
Weekly maintenance builds
 
August 2016
Weekly maintenance builds
 
17 Wed 04:00 EDT Release Candidate 1 build
19 Fri Submit to release train
 
24 Wed 01:00 EDT Release Candidate 2 build
25 Thu 1-day test pass against RC2 and sign-off
26 Fri Submit to release train
31 Wed 04:00 EDT Release Candidate 3 build
September 2016
 
1 Thu 1-day test pass against RC3 and sign-off
2 Fri Submit to release train
 
7 Wed 04:00 EDT Release Candidate 4 build [if required]

Here are some holidays during the freeze period to keep in mind:

  • August 1 - Switzerland
  • August 15 - Bangalore, India
  • Afternoon of September 12 - Zurich, Switzerland
  • September 5 - Bangalore, India

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What is the game plan?

The Eclipse Neon Service Release 1 ("Neon Update 1 (4.6.1)") endgame involves building a series of release candidates leading to the Eclipse project's contribution to the Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) release. The Eclipse project version number for this release is 4.6.1. By its nature, this maintenance release contains fixes to a small number of serious problems found in the June 2016 Neon (4.6) release. We make and verify each fix carefully, so that we do not need to tie up the entire development team in time-consuming test passes. As always, we welcome help from the community with testing the release candidates. By default, Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) is supposed to work exactly like the initial Neon (4.6) release except for the problems we intended to fix. All problems fixed in Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) are in the Eclipse bugzilla database and flagged with Target Milestone "4.6.1" (query bugzilla for the complete list of bugs fixed in Neon Update 1 (4.6.1)). So we're most interested in identifying regressions where we've changed something that we did not intend to.

General announcements during the Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) endgame are posted to the platform-releng-dev@eclipse.org developer mailing list. Anyone participating in the endgame should be subscribed to this list, and should direct any general questions and comments about the process there as well.

API change approval

No API changes are expected during a maintenance release. Any exception must be approved by the PMC. No changes are to be released without prior approval and associated bug report. Please send the request for approval to the eclipse-pmc mailing list. If a change is made to API to make it binary compatible with a previous release, technically this is still an API change, and thus it should be treated in the same way as any other API change requests.

Feature work approval

Any feature work must be approved by the PMC. No changes are to be released without prior approval and associated bug report. Please send the request for approval to the eclipse-pmc mailing list.

RC1

Release candidate 1 is a warm-up build to ensure the release train build process is in place and all projects are making contributions. All fixes submitted to maintenance stream builds must have a component lead or PMC vote on the bug report, and the fix must be reviewed by an additional committer (any committer other than the one who made the fix).

RC2

Release candidate containing fixes for the majority of known outstanding defects that we intend to fix for Neon Update 1 (4.6.1). At the end of RC2 build, there should not be any open defects tagged 4.6.1. All fixes submitted to maintenance stream builds must have a component lead or PMC vote on the bug report, and the fix must be reviewed by an additional committer (any committer other than the one who made the fix).

Test pass using RC2

Concerted 1-day testing effort using RC2 involving entire community including all component teams. The goal is to verify all the fixes and check for any regressions.

RC3

Release candidate containing fixes for all known outstanding defects that we intend to fix for Neon Update 1 (4.6.1). All fixes submitted to RC3 must have a PMC vote on the bug report, and the fix must be reviewed by an additional committer (any committer other than the one who made the fix). Ensure that all feature/plugin versions have been consistently incremented when needed.

Test pass using RC3

Concerted 1-day testing effort using RC3 involving entire community including all component teams. The goal is to verify all the fixes, check for any regressions and sanity check our RC3 candidate.

RC4

Release candidate 4, if required, to fix problems detected during the test pass. We expect NO CHANGE at this point. If you find a show stopper, please notify ASAP the eclipse-pmc@eclipse.org mailing list. All fixes submitted to RC4 must have a PMC vote on the bug report and be reviewed by an additional committer (any committer other than the one who made the fix).

No test pass is scheduled unless significant contributions occurred. If so, then Thursday would be elected for a one day test pass

Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) Release

The Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) release should be complete and available for download by the end of September 2016 as part of the Neon coordinated service release . If product teams intending to ship on Neon Update 1 (4.6.1) uncover further serious defects during the endgame, we may schedule additional release candidate builds to incorporate fixes.

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