[WG: Sakai QA] 2.9.0 release scheduled for next Friday, Nov 2 [tentative]

[Neal Caidin]

[sent to QA, Dev, CLE release team, TCC]

A plan for releasing 2.9.0 to production (aka GA / General availability) is as follows:

* Friday, October 26 (today) - Finish QA testing of 2.9.0-rc02 (Release candidate 02)
* Monday, October 29 - Review reported issues and identify blockers (ongoing effort, finish up on Monday)
* Tuesday, October 30 - If no blockers then RC 03 (Release candidate 03) build process begins
* Wednesday, October 31 - RC 03 available (probably late afternoon/evening)
* Thursday/ Friday, November 1/2 - QA testing on RC 03. 
* Friday, November 2 (or within a couple of days) - Declare RC 03 the 2.9.0 GA if no blocker issues emerge . 

There is one potential blocker being investigated, https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22801 - Quartz jobs issue, and a critical issue for IE 9 that is being investigated - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22833 , but probably not a blocker since it is with portal chat, which is off by default. 

Please consider holding next Thursday/Friday to help test or to encourage others to be available to test on those days.

Thanks,
 
Neal Caidin

Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
Skype: nealkdin
AIM: ncaidin at aol.com