84WebTasks

Website Preparation

The following changes all need to be prepared so that they can go out in one commit at the appropriate time. Please put your name next to items which you can claim, and mark them when done.

• Home Page
  • Call Box should say "8.4 Release" and have appropriate links -- Dave STAGED
  • Latest Releases should rotate to 8.4 and 7.4 should drop off -- Dave STAGED
• News
  • Write Internal announcement for News Item and Submit -- Josh
  • Check News Item
• developers/beta:
  • Needs to change to "Beta is over" page. -- Dave STAGED
• about/press:
  • Gather all presskits and translations -- Josh DONE
  • Need someone to review all of the new materials -- Dave FINAL CHECK DONE, STAGED
    • Correct presskits -- Josh DONE
  • Create TOC for about/press -- Dave STAGED
• about
  • Feature Matrix: "8.4dev" should change to "8.4" -- Dave STAGED
• Documentation
  • "8.4 beta" should change to "8.4" -- Dave STAGED
  • "What's New" link should point to 8.4 release notes -- Dave STAGED
• External
  • Submit Release to PRWire -- Josh

Scheduled Deployments

Here's the things which need to be done, and the times they need to be done. Given issues in the past, we should have a responsible and a backup person for each task. The schedule below assumes a July 1st release. Please add tasks as appropriate.

UTC Time	EDT Time	Task	Person	Backup	Done?
6/29 21:00	6/28 17:00	Move FTP files to main FTP	Marc	Josh	DONE
7/1 11:00	6/30 07:00	Load new docs into website database	Dave		DONE
7/1 11:15	6/30 07:15	Merge changes into website	Dave		DONE
7/1 11:15	6/30 07:15	Approve news item	Dave		DONE
7/1 11:30	6/30 07:30	Schedule website rebuild, inc. docs	Dave		DONE
7/1 14:00	6/30 10:00	Send out pgsql-announce	Josh	Bruce
7/1 19:00	6/30 15:00	Update Freshmeat, SourceForge, etc.	Jonathan Fuerth	Josh & Devrim
7/1 19:00	6/30 15:00	Submit to Slashdot ServerSide,StumbledUpon	Josh