Launch Plan October 2010

Pre-Launch To-Do List for Oct 25

• Create checklist - Dawn
• Add your to do items & make sure launch checklist is good - ALL
• Finish any last minute content changes - Scott
• Get BSP Guide content finished - Scott
• Publish BSP Guide on website - Mike
• Upload release notes - Dawn
• Add Google Analytics to Drupal - Mike
• Publish FAQ - Scott
• Announcement blog post - Dave
• Fix links to guides to open in a new window - Dawn
• Minor wiki cleanup - Dawn
• Confirm that I can remove this text from home page: "You’ve just landed on the Yocto Project home site." - Dawn
• Get rid of unverified next to blog author & see if we can display name instead of userid - Mike
• Need to figure out what to do about logging in to post comments - disable comments - Dawn / Mike

Schedule for October 26

• 7am UK / 11pm Pacific (Oct 25) - Code goes live and open websites (no announcements).
• ??am UK / xam Pacific - Press release published by the Linux Foundation.
• 9am UK / 1am Pacific - Conference presentation from LF announcing Yocto
• 9am UK / 1am Pacific - Announcements can go out.
• Noon Pacific - Dirk's presentation.

Launch Checklist

Do we have this already?

8am Pacific

• Remove access control and redirection - Richard
  • Remove password protection from yoctoproject.org (sub)domains - Richard
  • Swap default site redirection and name for lists.* and wiki.* - Richard
• Make meta-demo public - Richard
• Remove password protection from autobuilder - Scott G.
• Upload final version of the eclipse plugin - Jessica
• Upload final Yocto release images and tarballs - ???
• Remove access control from the Drupal website - Kip

xxam Pacific

• Publish press release - Amanda

Noon Pacific

• Rebrand bugzilla with Yocto logo - Richard
• Post announcement to mailing lists - David
• Post to LWN - Dirk
• Post to Twitter account - Dawn