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+title: "Release Plan for Gerrit 3.10"
+tags: news
+keywords: news
+permalink: 2024-02-13-gerrit-3.10-release-plan.html
+summary: "Release Plan for Gerrit 3.10"
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+toc: true
+---
+
+## High Level Release Plan
+
+| Date | Activity |
+|-----------|----------------------------------------------------|
+| Apr 5 | Create `stable-3.10` branch, Release `3.10.0-rc0` |
+| Apr 12 | Release `3.10.0-rc1` |
+| Apr 19 | Release `3.10.0-rc2` |
+| Apr 26 | Release `3.10.0-rc3` - Feature freeze deadline |
+| May 3 | Release `3.10.0-rc4` |
+| May 6-10 | Gerrit Hackathon (Offers to host?) |
+| May 10 | Final release of `3.10.0` |
+
+## Gerrit Hackathon
+
+The Gerrit hackathon is planned during the release week, from the 6th to 10th of May *TODO: Offers to host the hackathon?*
+
+We also encourage all the [JGit contributors and committers](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/who)
+to join the event.
+
+We will also ask the community members to allocate some of their time during the
+hackathon to help with finalizing the release:
+
+- Test the release candidates.
+- Report issues.
+- Triage and troubleshoot incoming bug reports.
+- Make fixes.
+- Do code reviews.
+- Test the latest head of the stable branch.
+
+To expedite reviews of Library-Compliance and frontend changes, we will ask
+Google to make some members available in the EU time-zone.
+
+## End-to-end Testing
+
+We plan to use the
+[Gatling e2e test framework for Git](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-e2e-tests.html),
+developed by GerritForge and Ericsson, to test the stability of the release
+on a production-like setup on AWS automatically provisioned using the
+[aws-gerrit](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/aws-gerrit) templates.
+
+[GerritForge](https://www.gerritforge.com) has also offered its own AWS
+infrastructure to test the scalability of Gerrit v3.10, particularly with
+medium to large sized projects and in a multi-primary setup.
+
+The [Gerrit-CI](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com) has also an automated
+[aws-gerrit pipeline](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com/job/gatling-gerrit-test/)
+that will be pointed to the stable-3.10 branch and run on a daily basis.
+
+## End of Life for Gerrit 3.7.x
+
+Per the support policy mentioned on the
+[project homepage](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/support.html#supported-versions),
+after 3.10.0 is released 3.7.x will reach end of life and will no longer be
+actively supported.
+
+Support for 3.8.x and 3.9.x will continue as usual.
+Users of 3.7.x or earlier are recommended to upgrade to one of these versions.
