[eclipse-dev] 3.0 M6 Build schedule

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The final milestone week of 2003 is
quickly approaching.  The build schedule is as follows....

Monday Dec 15  08:00 EST - 3.0
M6 Warm-up build
- this is just a warm up
- rebuilds will only be run if their are compile errors, missing plugins
or the build is unusable.  (Same as the integration build rebuild
policy) 

- Tuesday, Dec 16 - 3.0 M6 Test Candidate
build
- 3.0 M6 build toward Test candidate at 12:10 am, 8 am, noon, 4 pm, and
8 pm builds if map files are updated
- Midnight Integration builds will be
in lieu of the nightly builds on Tuesday and Thursday.
- goal: a good build for the test pass
on Wednesday
- all teams need to sign off on  that candidate build is good enough
to use for Wednesday's test pass 
- 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) 
- we are writing a tool that will send
an email to eclipse-dev the names of teams that have updated their map
files for each build and thus are required to validate the build

- Wednesday, Dec 17 (all day) - 3.0
M6 Test pass 
  - intensive 1-day test pass on M6 candidate 

-Thursday, Dec 18 - Build toward Milestone
candidate
-3.0 M6 build toward Milestone candidate
with 12:10 am, 8 am, noon, 4 pm, and 8 pm builds if map files are updated
- 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) 
- goal: a milestone candidate for Friday

Friday, Dec 19
-Final sanity check, all teams sign
off, 3.0 M6 is released.

A summary of this schedule is available
here...

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

Please note:  After 3.0 M6 is declared,
integration builds will be suspended until January 6.


Kim