= Knot 3 release status =

This documents the current state of the knot-3 release.  Please don't change this unless you are a release manager.

== 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).
 * ☑ 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.
 * ☑ 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.
 * ☑ Clear out the testing grid
 * ☑ Test and iterate uploads as required, make sure to clear the testing grid for each iteration.
 * ☑ 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.

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