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Release tasks overview
This section provides an overview of the tasks that need to be completed for a documentation release, and a rough schedule of when to complete each task. The schedule is expressed in terms of time before release day. Release day is usually 1300UTC on the initial release date listed on the release schedule.
- Four to six weeks before release
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Ping packagers to locate pre-release packages to test the Installation Tutorial against, and start looking for willing volunteers to help test.
- Four weeks
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Ping Cross Project Liaisons (CPLs) to check their chapters, and ping packagers to check on package availability. As soon as pre-release packages are available, ask people to start testing.
- Two to four weeks
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Ping Speciality Team leads to review and update release notes for openstack-manuals.
- At RC1
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When projects create their branches and land the first patch, they will automatically have branch-specific documentation. After the branches are created, create the project data file in the
openstack-manualsrepository for the new series. - Before or on release day
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Update the series settings in the template generator and add the landing page for the next series by copying the templates from the current release to the new release directory.