[cross-project-issues-dev] Dates for milestones and the Mars Release

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The planning council has settled on our
complete schedule for the Mars release, and its service releases, including
milestones, and other checkpoints. 

The most official source is the Plan,
at 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mars/Simultaneous_Release_Plan#Schedule

but have also added them to our Planning
Council Calendar, for your convenience.


Plus, I have added the "Important
Dates" provided by the Eclipse Foundation for their deadlines for
Mars Release. (also pasted below)

All dates follow the same pattern as
previous years, though there is one notable exception. M6 will be after
EclipseCon this year (in 2015) rather than right before it. The reason
is simply that EclipseCon has been moving "earlier in the year"
by a few weeks, and the Planning Council felt M6 could not be squeezed
in before it, and thought it better to extend it a little so they did not
coincide with each other. In the end, M5 is 7 weeks long, M6 is 7 weeks
long, and M7 is 6 weeks long. Not a radical change, just wanted to mention
it, in case anyone wanted to "show off" some new feature at EclipseCon,
you would not automatically think you had "until M6" to get it
done, as has been the case in previous years. 

Thanks everyone, 

= = = = = = = = = = = = 

Important Dates:

• Feb 13/2015 - CQ Submission deadline for Mars
• May 22/2015 - IP Log submission deadline
• May 29/2015 - Review materials due
• June 12/2015 - Release Review