[eclipse-pmc] Galileo SR1 endgame

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At today's planning council call, the
dates for Galileo SR1 were finalized [1]. The only notable change from
previous years is an *extra* release candidate three weeks earlier on August
10-14th. This was based on the experience last year where there were problems
getting the release train builds started that resulted in a very late RC1
build. Contribution to this first build is optional. Based on these dates
I have created a draft Galileo SR1 endgame plan [2]. This plan is based
on the Ganymede SR1 plan, with RC1,RC2,RC3 renamed to RC2,RC3,RC4, with
the new RC1 inserted at the beginning. Please send any comments on this
draft plan, especially in light of the retrospective suggestion to introduce
more control into the maintenance release process. I haven't added any
extra process into this draft, but I'm awaiting your input on whether we
should make changes.

Note this schedule requires our RC1
build to be *this* Friday, which is very short notice. I suggest we let
everyone know about this, but finalize and publish the end-game plan next
week after discussing it next Wednesday.

John

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Galileo_Simultaneous_Release#SR1
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/freeze_plan_3_5_1.php