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| author | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2014-04-22 12:06:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2014-04-22 12:06:54 +0200 |
| commit | 223070b3fe9cb302d3d47ba5a616d90bab8910fd (patch) | |
| tree | 5195a27161c0f37b9442467fd99f1ab1d2cf7bf6 | |
| parent | 814a459527db7a989c37bf5906da505a37a0d8c8 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-223070b3fe9cb302d3d47ba5a616d90bab8910fd.tar.gz | |
add steps to monthly releases
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release/monthly.md | 26 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release/monthly.md b/doc/release/monthly.md index 9dbe62f1210..ffb3ccfd418 100644 --- a/doc/release/monthly.md +++ b/doc/release/monthly.md @@ -58,16 +58,32 @@ Check if changed since last release (~22nd of last month depending on when last * [](https://coveralls.io/r/gitlabhq/gitlabhq) -## Make a release branch +## Release Schedule After making the release branch new commits are cherry-picked from master. When the release gets closer we get more selective what is cherry-picked. The days of the month are approximately as follows: -* 1-7th: official merge window (see contributing guide) -* 8-14th: work on bugfixes, sponsored features and GitLab EE -* 15th: code freeze (stop merging into master except essential bugfixes) -* 18th: release candidate 1 (VERSION x.x.0.rc1, annotated tag and tweet about x.x.0.rc1, release on GitLab Cloud) +* 1-7th: Official merge window (see contributing guide). +* 8-14th: Work on bugfixes, sponsored features and GitLab EE. +* 15th: Code freeze + - Stop merging into master, except essential bugfixes + - Announce a Release Manager +* 18th: Release Candidate 1 (VERSION x.x.0.rc1, annotated tag and tweet about x.x.0.rc1, release on GitLab Cloud) + - Set VERSION to x.x.0.rc1 + - Create annotated tag x.x.0.rc1 + - Push the changes to GitLab.com, dev.gitlab.com, GitHub + - Tweet about the release + - Create a new branch on cloud for rc1 + - Deploy the new branch on Cloud after tests pass * 20st: optional release candidate 2 (x.x.0.rc2, only if rc1 had problems) * 22nd: release (VERSION x.x.0, create x-x-stable branch, annotated tag tag, blog and tweet) + - Create x-x-stable branch and push to the repositories + - QA + - Fix anything coming out of the QA + - Set VERSION to x.x.0 + - Create annotated tag x.x.0 + - Push VERSION + Tag to master, merge into x-x-stable + - Publish blog for new release + - Tweet to blog (see below) * 23nd: optional patch releases (x.x.1, x.x.2, etc., only if there are serious problems) * 24-end of month: release GitLab EE and GitLab CI |