ReleaseManagement

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*** WORK IN PROGRESS ***

This page is intended put some structure around the various aspects of release management, and use this as a page for gathering information, processes, etc. First gather, then make look pretty.

Active Release Status

Links to help track current activity of a release:

Brainstorming on better metrics to track releases quality:

Release Processes

These are the check lists necessary to set up the infrastructure for a release, manage it through the life cycle, get it burned to ISOs, and track after release to look for ways to improve.

New Release Kickoff

Review and update key information about a release in:

Work through:

Make necessary additions to:

Update templates and propose initial schedule for release+2 (for advanced planning of activites/etc.)

Tracking and Management

Publishing

Post Mortem

TO DO: find link or write up process for getting feedback.


Communication

These are the mechanisms we use to communicate with each other and manage the release and its quality.


Documentation

Updates to the documentation to accompany the release should follow the following.

Only ubuntu-doc-committers can commit to the main code.

Contributors can/should only push to the personal branches and propose a merge, or simply create a bundle and submit to the list for committers to review and accept/merge to the main.

See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation