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docs: adjust release management doc
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ Contributors to gather a list of features for the release. Discuss the
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support status of new features with stakeholders. Help prepare the press
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release, write a blog post for the release.
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Make sure the key people for doing the release (especially Community Manager,
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Release Manager and Release Technician) will be either available around the
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planned release date or have named a substitute being capable to perform the
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required tasks.
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1. Collate a list of major changes: this should be done in collaboration
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between Release Manager, PR Personnel and key contributors. This should *not*
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be done on a public mailing list, to minimize the risk of release related
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@@ -198,12 +203,14 @@ releases typically done mid-week (Tuesday - Thursday).
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4. Select the release date.
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5. Check with relevant stake-holders (typically community manager) whether
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5. Specify the dates regarding support and security support in SUPPORT.md.
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6. Check with relevant stake-holders (typically community manager) whether
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wiki documentation and PR is in good shape (for an example see
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https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Xen_4.9
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<https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Xen_4.9>)
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6. Obtain a formal go-ahead from
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7. Obtain a formal go-ahead from
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* the Community Manager
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* the Release Technician
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@@ -211,12 +218,12 @@ https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Xen_4.9
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Ask them to dry-run their checklist and confirm everything is OK. If not,
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arrange another RC and restart this checklist.
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7. Do not commit to a release date until
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8. Do not commit to a release date until
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* The exact xen.git commit id to be released is known.
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* That commit id has been satisfactorily tested.
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8. Give PR Personnel final go-ahead, and instruct Release Technician to make
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9. Give PR Personnel final go-ahead, and instruct Release Technician to make
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release deliverables (tags and tarballs - will usually be in place the day
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before the release). At this point, PR collateral will be sent to reporters
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(typically 2-3 working days before the release date) and we cannot undo
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@@ -224,7 +231,7 @@ publications without questions being asked and risk of negative PR. It is
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acceptable to make a xen-devel@ announcement *before* the PR release date
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(blog, xen-announce@, press release).
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9. Make the announcement on various mailing list, publish the blog post.
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10. Make the announcement on various mailing list, publish the blog post.
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Allow for contingencies. It is not uncommon that some last minute (security or
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not) bugs are discovered. To provide a fix takes time, the test of the fix
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@@ -239,9 +246,15 @@ following things happen for the new Release Manager.
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1. A JIRA (xenproject.atlassian.net) is created and proper permissions granted.
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2. Access to community test infrastructure is granted.
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In the common case the public pages at logs.test-lab.xenproject.org will
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suffice.
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3. Access to mailing list moderation panel is granted.
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4. An account for blog.xenproject.org is created.
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The account can be created by the new Release Manager, it might be necessary
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to adjust the access rights.
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5. An account for wiki.xenproject.org is created.
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The account can be created by the new Release Manager, it might be necessary
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to adjust the access rights.
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# Email templates and scripts
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