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.