Current state of the Knot 2 release
Milestone release processes
The following checklist should be followed by milestone release managers. (Those people should feel free to amend this if experience demonstrates that other tasks are necessary.)
- ☑ A few days in advance of the planned milestone release date, ask the documentation team to prepare a web page about the changes since the last milestone.
- ☑ Check that core developers have landed everything major they need to land (or talk them out of it).
☑ Announce the milestone freeze on the #ubuntu-devel topic and possibly ubuntu-devel-announce. There is generally no need to tell people to hold off on uploads, as they will be held automatically by Soyuz once the next task is performed.
- ☑ Set the distrorelease to FROZEN in Soyuz temporarily.
- ☑ Stop all live filesystem and cdimage cron jobs.
- ☑ Warn the QA team of the upcoming milestone release.
- ☑ Tell Jeff Bailey that we're getting close to a release and ask for re-certification on our test hardware.
- ☑ Test and iterate uploads as required.
- ☑ Go over DISTRORELEASE-changes since the last milestone to make sure that all relevant major changes have been documented in the milestone's web page.
- ☑ Prepare the release announcement (this should refer to the web page prepared by the doc team rather than going into details of changes itself).
- ☑ Publish the milestone CD images. This usually requires mangling the HEADER.html in the directory where the images are stored, since publish-release isn't smart enough to do the right thing there.
- ☑ Verify that all mirrors have images.
☑ Send the release announcement (current opinion on the target for the announcement seems to be ubuntu-devel-announce for non-beta/RC/final releases, and Bcc to fridge-devel).
- ☑ Set the distrorelease back to DEVELOPMENT.
- ☑ Clear out any pending entries in the UNAPPROVED queue.
- ☐ Turn live filesystems and cdimage cron jobs back on.