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From: Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@eu.citrix.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:33:07 +0100
Subject: CloudStack 4.0 release plan
Thread-Topic: CloudStack 4.0 release plan
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Hi all,

After my draft release plan last week, I've taken the feedback that I got (=
thanks for that, everyone) and I think we're ready to commit to this plan n=
ow.

The timescales are very tight, but that's the aim - get something out as so=
on as we can, to make our first release as an Apache-incubated project.  I'=
ll be keeping track of who's doing what, so that we can keep on schedule.  =
Please let me know if there's anything that comes up that might be a proble=
m.

I would like to highlight the issue of internationalization for this releas=
e.  At the moment, we have no-one looking at the various translations in th=
e tree, so the 4.0 release will be English only, and we will follow up late=
r with translation packs as and when they are ready.  If someone wants to i=
nvest time in a translation immediately, then we would be able to take them=
 during our release-candidate phase.  Please volunteer if that is the case.=
  The release-candidate phase won't be a complete UI freeze, so you may nee=
d to do a few translations at the last minute, but the bulk of the job can =
be tackled right now.

So the plan looks like this:

Development phase: Now - Friday 10 August.
Release branch opens: Monday 13 August.
Stability and bugfix work: Monday 13-Friday 17 August.
First release candidate build: Friday 17 August.
Testing and subsequent release candidates: Monday 20 - Friday 31 August.
Release: Tuesday 4 September (the day after Labor Day and the week after Li=
nux Foundation's CloudOpen).

This is going to be a time-based release: we will take features if they are=
 ready, but we're not going to delay the release if they aren't.


Other things that are happening:

David Nalley, Pradeep Soundararajan, Chip Childers, and Edison Su are worki=
ng on sorting out our build dependencies, turning off things that depend on=
 non-Apache SDKs (libvirt-java, mysql-connector-java, NetApp, F5, and VMwar=
e SDKs).
Alena Prokharchyk is preparing the VPC branch for merge.
Vijay Venkatachalam, Pranav Saxena, Deepak Garg are preparing the autoscale=
 branch for merge.
I'm getting automated testing stood up.
Jessica Tomechak and Radhika Puthiyetath will be finalizing the documentati=
on in a few weeks.


Cheers,

Ewan.


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