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1. Modify `debian-cd/CONF.sh` to set `OFFICIAL="Release Candidate"` | 1. Modify `debian-cd/CONF.sh` to set `OFFICIAL="Release Candidate"` (Edit from bzr co bzr+ssh://antimony.canonical.com/srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/bzr/debian-cd/ and pull from /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/debian-cd on antimony) |
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To be carried out by: The Ubuntu Release Manager, with support from the Ubuntu release team
Goals:
- Produce a comprehensive, thoroughly tested release intended for final publication
- Execute a complete functional test of the release process in preparation for the final release
RC minus 14 days:
Notify kernel team of KernelFreeze
RC minus 10 days:
Notify developers by mailing ubuntu-devel-announce:
- Pointer to milestone page
- Reminder of freeze
- Target any relevant bugs to the milestone
- Review problems and file targeted bugs for those which need resolution for the release candidate:
- Live filesystem build failures
- Upgrade failures
- Oversized ISOs
- Merge seeds and update metapackages for all derivatives
Notify Michael Vogt to perform a GnomeAppInstallDesktopDatabaseUpdate
- Notify James Troup to remind mirrors to check free disk space
- Include estimate of disk space requirements for pre-publishing the release candidate
Begin UpgradeTestingProcess
RC minus 7 days:
- All CD-related problems should be resolved
- Live filesystem build failures
Clear the NBS list.
Announce the freeze on the #ubuntu-devel topic and 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 status to FROZEN in Launchpad
- Review problems and file targeted bugs for those which need resolution for the release:
- Installation bugs
- Upgrade bugs
- High-severity bugs
- Selectively accept package uploads to resolve targeted bugs
RC minus 3 days:
- Stop all live filesystem and cdimage cron jobs
Modify debian-cd/CONF.sh to set OFFICIAL="Release Candidate" (Edit from bzr co bzr+ssh://antimony.canonical.com/srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/bzr/debian-cd/ and pull from /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/debian-cd on antimony)
Go through ReleaseChecklist
- Produce a full set of images
Notify Marjo Mercado to begin ReleaseValidationProcess
- Notify Marjo Mercado and ask for re-certification on test hardware
- Iteratively test and accept select showstopper fixes
Ask the marketing team (ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com) to prepare a web page about the changes since the last milestone. Please cc matthew.nuzum@canonical.com and gerry.carr@canonical.com
Notify Matthew Nuzum to ensure that the release notes redirection table on http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/ReleaseNotes is up to date
RC minus 2 days:
- Receive certification test results from Marc Tardif
- Prepare the release announcement
- Notify Jonathan Riddell, Jonathan Carter for Kubuntu and Edubuntu inputs
Review -changes mailing list since the last milestone to make sure that all relevant major changes have been documented in the milestone's web page
- this should refer to the web page prepared by the doc team rather than going into details of changes itself
- update the page to include any caveats
notify loco teams to translate release notes (coordinate with Matthew Nuzum; URLs should be https://wiki.ubuntu.com/<releasenotepath>/<lang> for all languages)
- obtain up-to-date list of triggered release mirrors from Canonical sysadmin
Notify Matt Zimmerman, ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com to proofread the announcement and suggest changes, CC product owners (Rick Spencer, Jos Boumans, David Mandala) and Marketing (Gerry Carr).
- Review targeted bugs and take final decisions on what to fix and what to defer
- Pre-publish ISOs (for CDs only). This is typically done with:
for-project kubuntu publish-release daily 20061019 alternate poolonly rc
Copy the beta release from releases.ubuntu.com, by moving all *-beta-* in .pool directories under /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/www/simple to directories under /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/old-images/. If requested by IS, also remove these files after archival; note that this will leave releases.ubuntu.com without any visible images for this release for a short while.
RC minus 15 minutes:
Publish the CD images. This usually requires mangling the .htaccess and the HEADER.html file in the top-level directory as well as in the kubuntu/ and edubuntu/ subdirectories, and trimming all images not related to the current release from the .manifest file so that full mirror probes are possible in a timely manner.
- Remove any not-yet-official warnings from the announcement and release notes
- Verify that all mirrors listed in the announcement or release notes have images, and remove faulty mirrors
- Check torrents for proper functionality
RC release:
Update the topic on #ubuntu-devel
- Notify Matthew Nuzum to put the announcement on the website
- News sidebar
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Send the release announcement to ubuntu-announce
Ask Ryan Troy to post to News & Announcements section
RC plus 1 day:
Continue on ReleaseProcess
If any changes were made to this document in this run, check whether the changes also apply to MilestoneProcess, BetaProcess or ReleaseProcess.
ReleaseCandidateProcess (last edited 2020-10-21 18:50:56 by brian-murray)