Alpha2 code freeze

• Code freeze is going at Wednesday morning
• Finalize release, update project assembler scripts.
• Blockers approved by Alex, Nick and Jay, as well as docs updates.
• nbelaevski and Jay will review remaining issues in Jira and either move to M1, or adjust as needed.
• /root is going to be closed until we release to QE wed. night
• start testing Thursday.
• At the time of the release to QE we will be creating stable release branches so that trunk can be opened for development of M1 by the team
• Any changes needed in A2 will be done first in the stable branch, and then that module can be re-released ( or updated ).
• Alpha2 release distribution will be stored in stage Maven repo.
• Downloadable distributions will be stored in repo, with checksums. After release, they will be copied to download area.

M1 plans

• code freeze for M1 will be July 6th
• We are going to begin our timeboxed releases, first 6 weeks, then 4 weeks until we release.