ReleaseChecklist

Revision 3 as of 2005-10-05 09:39:00

Clear message

These are things that needed to be checked for any release (preview, release candidate, and final) by the release manager:

  • change the description in dists/xxx/Release
  • check the volume labels on ISO's for all architectures (cdimage/debian-cd/CONF.sh, OFFICIAL variable)
  • check the lsb-release output for accuracy
  • check /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net for accuracy

Release timeline:

  • 7 days prior:
    • release candidate release

    • FINAL ARTWORK

    • draft release announcement
  • 1 day before:
    • finalise release announcement
    • get release announcement translated
    • finalise media announcement list (list of email addresses, and who is sending)
    • make sure candidate final iso is in pool dir on mirror-master
    • verify torrents are working
    • verify that all servers have the image internally (releases, archive, cdimage)
  • on publishing: