As I am sure you know, we are scheduled to release Neon.2 on
12/21/2016, at approximately 10 AM Eastern.
Between now and then is what we call "quiet week" -- a time for
final acceptance testing and preparation of websites, etc.
While it is called "quiet", that does not mean there is nothing
to do. While we do not update the dates in the "Final Daze"
document for every update release, the concepts are the same
(please read the document, if you never have). But otherwise, the
main things are:
archive old releases
put final artifacts in their permanent home so they can be
synced up the mirrors (but, leave them "invisible" to general
public, until 12/21).
final testing, especially "update
site" testing. Here are the links you need to know to
simulate what "check for updates" will do once everything is in
.../releases/neon:
http://download.eclipse.org/staging/neon/
Plus, there is one new thing and one change to the way we have
done things in the past:
The new thing: Contribute to overall new and noteworthy (if you
have new features, or are new to the update release). For "How
To" information, see
Overall Release New and Noteworthy.
The changed thing: There will no longer be a bug to list
plugins that go into the help
info center. Instead, as per Bug 499411
we will automatically find all the "doc bundles" in the Sim Rel
repository and automatically add them. This is still a work in
progress but you can take a look at the Hudson
test.infocenter job if interested. Eventually we should
have a "staging" sort of URL you can use to test your help
documentation.
If there is no other communication about Neon.2, then check back
around 10 on 12/21 to make sure there are no "WAIT! ..." messages
where we have to defer the release for some reason before you
publicize the release.
As always, please ask if there are questions or issues.
Thanks to everyone for contributing to this update release.