Launch Plan October 2010

Pre-Launch To-Do List for Oct 25

• Add your to do items & make sure launch checklist is good - ALL
• Add Yocto logo and favicon to the wiki - Richard
• Finish any last minute content changes - Scott
• Announcement blog post - Dave
• Final decision on where the FAQ lives & move it if necessary - Scott
• Create checklist - Dawn
• 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
• 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
• Fix permissions so that anonymous users can't edit pages - Dawn / Mike

Schedule for October 26

• 7am UK / 11pm Pacific (Oct 25) - Code goes live and open websites (no announcements).
• 9am UK / 1am Pacific - Press release, announcements and conference presentation announcing Yocto
• 8pm UK / Noon Pacific - Dirk's presentation.

Launch Checklist

7am UK / 11pm 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 - Richard
• Remove access control from the Drupal website - Richard
• Final round of testing links to make sure they work - Dave
  • http://www.yoctoproject.org/community/bugs - test bugzilla links
  • http://www.yoctoproject.org/download - test all links, esp download / mirrors

9am UK / 1am Pacific

• Publish press release - Amanda
• Rebrand bugzilla with Yocto logo - Richard
• Post announcement to mailing lists - Dave
• Post to LWN - Dirk
• Post to Twitter account - Dave

8pm UK / Noon Pacific

• Dinner presentation - Dirk