Release Plan for version 4.5-milestone-1
Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2017/03/24 12:15
Release Date: 29/01/2013
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- Verify that the xwiki-commons's top level POM has a xwiki.clirr.previous.version property correctly pointing to the latest stable (non-milestone) release and if not, change it and ensure that all the CLIRR excludes are correct and remove those that are no longer valid.
- Verify that there are no open issues on JIRA for version 4.5-milestone-1
- Verify that no tests are failing on the CI Server (or that failures are understood).
- Verify that there are no missing documentation for closed JIRA issues for version 4.5-milestone-1
- Ensure that the Release Notes are complete and nice-looking for version 4.5-milestone-1
- Release JIRA versions for the following JIRA projects:
- Since the release is performed on agent-1, mark it offline in the Jenkins admin screen. Put as comment Temporarily marking agent-1 offline for the release of 4.5-milestone-1.
- Log on the release machine, set up your identity and update the release scripts
- Update translations
- Build the release
- Clean up your identity
- Mark agent-1 online again in the Jenkins admin screen (button on the right).
- Publish CLIRR reports in the Release Notes for version 4.5-milestone-1
- Push distribution files to OW2 and release them
- Update the XE Download page
- Update the XEM Download page
- Ensure that there's a line pointing to the Release Notes for version 4.5-milestone-1 on the Release Notes home page
- Publish news on OW2
- Create blog post on xwiki.org
- Update the API doc, including Rendering
- Update Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia (fr) and Wikipedia (compare wiki software)
- FreeCode (you can check previous releases)
- Wikimatrix with Ludovic's account
- Announcement Mail
- Announce on Twitter with the xwikiorg account
- Add yourself to the Release Manager Roster page
- Update the release date on the Roadmap page for non bugfix releases
- Push Commons and Rendering to Maven Central
