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| 28 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">DITA Open Toolkit release management</h1>
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| 33 | <div class="body"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA-OT project works with an agile development process; it releases test (milestone)
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| 34 | builds approximately every month, and it encourages feedback on the test builds while function is
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| 35 | being developed. Stable releases are typically issued approximately every six months.</p>
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| 37 | <p class="p">Each iteration begins with a meeting of project contributors. The meeting minutes are stored on
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| 38 | the project Wiki and are available to the public. Active contributors are directly invited to these
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| 39 | meetings, but anybody interested in the DITA-OT development is welcome to attend. If you are
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| 40 | interested in attending these meetings, join the dita-ot-developer mailing list and send a note to
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| 41 | the list or list owners.</p>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <div class="p">Each iteration kick-off meeting covers the following topics:<ul class="ul">
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| 44 | <li class="li">Issues from the previous iteration</li>
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| 46 | <li class="li">Plans from each contributor for the upcoming iteration or for new work that will span multiple
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| 47 | iterations</li>
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| 49 | <li class="li">Design discussion for any significant planned features or fixes</li>
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| 51 | <li class="li">Longer-term plans for contributions to the current or following release</li>
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| 53 | <li class="li">(As needed) Other project issues or hot topics, such as changes to the test and build process,
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| 54 | interest from new contributors, etc.</li>
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| 56 | </ul>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <div class="p">The kick-off meeting for the final iteration before a stable build covers the following topics:<ul class="ul">
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| 60 | <li class="li">Evaluation of what is allowed in the iteration; the final iteration typically has no major
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| 61 | changes in order to assure quality in the stable build.</li>
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| 63 | <li class="li">Assessment of whether all release notes and other artifacts are up-to-date and ready for a final
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| 64 | build.</li>
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| 69 | <p class="p">When an iteration is complete, the build is uploaded to SourceForge. Test builds are placed in
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| 70 | the <span class="ph filepath">Latest Test Build</span> folder. At the end of a release cycle, the builds are
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| 71 | loaded to the <span class="ph filepath">Stable Release</span> folder, and the project information is updated to
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| 72 | reflect the latest release.</p>
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| 78 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../admin/DevelopmentProcess.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) development process is modeled after development processes for other popular and successful open-source projects, most notably Eclipse.">DITA Open Toolkit development process</a></div>
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| 80 | <div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br/>
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| 81 | <div><a class="link" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dita-ot-developer" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dita-ot-developer</a></div>
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| 82 | <div><a class="link" href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/wiki/Meeting-minutes" target="_blank">https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/wiki/Meeting-minutes</a></div>
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