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• Proposed Release Timeline #2 - 10 months (slightly longer timeframe, but if we moved to 12 months timeframe afterwards, then we'd just do a new release every October, before the holidays get started)
  • June 3, 2011 : Beta 1 (Note: OR11 is June 7-11)
  • July 8, 2011 : Beta 2
  • August 19, 2011 : Feature Freeze
  • August 26, 2011 : Final Documentation "Due Date"?
  • September 2, 2011 : Release Candidate 1
  • September 5-16, 2011 : Testathon
  • September 30, 2011 : Release Candidate 2
  • October 3-12, 2011 : Final Testing / Bug Fixing
  • October 14, 2011 : Final Release

• The main differences between these timelines are the following:
  • Timeline #1 = 9 months, Timeline #2 = 10 months
  • In Timeline #1, we release two "Beta" releases before OR11. Whereas, in Timeline #2, we just release one "Beta" before OR11.
  • After this 1.8 release, several folks feel it might be good to move to a consistent Release Schedule (e.g. every 12 months). If we went this route, then we would be "standardizing" on a release either, every September or every October. If you feel one month is better than the other, that may be a deciding factor.

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure