Eclipse Project 3.2.2
Endgame Plan
Updated frequently to reflect current status
Status

Wednesday February 14, 2007 16:00 EDT Status: Eclipse 3.2.2 will be released as part of the Callisto Winter Maintenance.

Detailed Timeline
January 2007 
 10  Wed 08:00 EDT   Release Candidate 1 build      details   
15 Mon 08:00 EDT   Start 1-day test pass against RC1      details   
February 2007 
  Release 3.2.2 available      details   
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Build Schedule - details on build times.

What is the game plan?
The Eclipse 3.2.2 maintenance release endgame involves building a series of release candidates leading to the official 3.2.2 release. By its nature, this maintenance release contains fixes to a small number of serious problems found in the 3.2.1 release. We make and verify each fix carefully, so that we do not need to tie up the entire development team in time-consuming test passes. As always, we welcome help from the community with testing the release candidates. By default,  3.2.2 is supposed to work exactly like 3.2.1 except for the problems we intended to fix. All problems fixed in 3.2.2 are in the Eclipse bugzilla database and flagged with Target Milestone "3.2.2" (query bugzilla for the complete list of bugs fixed in 3.2.2). So we're most interested in identifying regressions where we've changed something that we did not intend to.

General announcements during the 3.2.2 endgame are posted to the platform-releng-dev@eclipse.org developer mailing list. Anyone participating in the endgame should be subscribed to this list, and should direct any general questions and comments about the process there as well.
Details
RC1
Release candidate containing fixes for the majority of known outstanding defects that we intend to fix for 3.2.2. At then end of RC1 build, there should not be any open defects tagged 3.2.2. All fixes submitted to 3.2.2 stream builds must have a PMC vote on the bug report.
Test pass using RC1
Concerted 1-day testing effort using RC1 involving entire community including all component teams. Since this is the only test pass scheduled for this maintenance release, the goal is to verify all the fixes and check for any regressions.
RC2
Release candidate 2, if required, to fix problems detected during the test pass.
Release 3.2.2
Release 3.2.2 should be complete and available for download by mid February as part of the Callisto coordindated maintenance release . If product teams intending to ship on 3.2.2 uncover further serious defects during the endgame, we may schedule additional release candidate builds to incorporate fixes.