Commit 223070b3 authored by Job van der Voort's avatar Job van der Voort

add steps to monthly releases

parent 814a4595
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## 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
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