[eclipse-dev] Build Schedule for Eclipse 3.0 Milestone 4 (3.0 M4)

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse 3.0 Milestone 4 build (3.0 M4)
is planned for Friday, October 10.

The most up-to-date build schedule is
found here: 

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-releng-home/buildSchedule.html


In brief, the updated schedule is: 

Tuesday October 7, 08:00 EDT - 3.0 M4
Warm-up build 
- this is just a warm-up 
- rebuilds are not planned should this
build fails or is unusable 

Wednesday, October 8, 08:00 EDT - 3.0
M4 Test candidate build 
- this is the real M4 build 
- goal: a good build for the test pass
on Thursday
- all teams need to sign off on  that
candidate build is good enough to use for Wednesday test pass 
- we will rebuild as necessary until
a test candidate is available 
- for a rebuild, only team(s) requesting
the rebuild need to recheck and sign off (although they may request other
teams to revalidate potentially affected functionality) 

Thursday, October 9 (all day) - 3.0
M4 Test pass 
- intensive 1-day test pass on M4 candidate

- identify any critical problems and
supply critical fixes by 16:00 EDT 

Thursday, October 9, 16:00 EDT - 3.0
M4 Release candidate 
- this is the final M4 build 
- goal: a good build to release as 3.0
M4 on Friday 

Friday, October 10
- all teams need to sign off that the
release candidate is good enough to declare as M4 
- we will rebuild as necessary 
- for a rebuild, only team(s) requesting
the rebuild need to recheck and sign off (although they may request other
teams to revalidate potentially affected functionality)  
- declare 3.0 M4 available 

Note:  Please do not update the
map files for integration builds for the week of October 13-17 until we
have declared M4 available.