Developer Area/Release Instructions: Difference between revisions

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Mahara creates 2 major releases per year (April: XX.04.0, and October: XX.10.0). We also create 'minor point' releases when we need to add urgent fixes and security updates (e.g. XX.04.1, XX.04.2 etc). Doing minor point releases is slightly different to doing a major release. On a major release, we apply any security and bug fixes that are included in the release as a minor point update to other supported versions. Minor point releases are for security fixes or urgent bug fixes - these happen between major releases.

Overview

STAGES	Release Candidate	Major release (XX.XX.0)	Minor point release (XX.XX.1 etc)
1. Release prep	RC Prep	Major Prep	Minor Prep
2. The Release - Outcome: zip file is on Launchpad (a major release + 3 minor points)	RC Release	Major Release	Minor Release
3. Release follow-up admin - forums, bug report updating, admin etc	RC Follow up	✅	✅
4. Community site upgrades	NA	✅	NA
5. Minor point updates for all supported versions and clients who have paid for that support package	NA	✅	✅
6. Retro workshop	NA	✅	NA

Links to documentation

Extra info for devs

OLD DOCUMENTATION (Beware: only kept for posterity)

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-Mahara creates 2 major releases per year (April: X.04.0, and October: X.10.0). We also create 'minor point' releases when we need to add urgent fixes and security updates (e.g. X.04.1, X.04.2 etc).
+Mahara creates 2 major releases per year (April: XX.04.0, and October: XX.10.0). We also create 'minor point' releases when we need to add urgent fixes and security updates (e.g. XX.04.1, XX.04.2 etc).  Doing minor point releases is slightly different to doing a major release. On a major release, we apply any security and bug fixes that are included in the release as a minor point ''update'' to other supported versions. Minor point ''releases'' are for security fixes or urgent bug fixes - these happen between major releases.
-This page contains links to details about the procedure to follow when building a release for general download, i.e. a zip file.
+==Overview==
+{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
+!'''STAGES'''
+!'''Release Candidate'''
+!'''Major release'''
+'''(XX.XX.0)'''
+!'''Minor point release'''
+'''(XX.XX.1 etc)'''
+|-
+|'''1. Release prep'''
+|RC Prep
+|'''[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Pre-release|Major Prep]]'''
+|Minor Prep
+|-
+|'''2. The Release''' - Outcome: zip file is on Launchpad (a major release + 3 minor points)
+|'''[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_Candidate|RC Release]]'''
+|'''[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_day|Major Release]]'''
+|[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Minor Release|'''Minor Release''']]
+|-
+|'''3. Release follow-up admin'''  - forums, bug report updating, admin etc
+|'''[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_Candidate_Follow_Up|RC Follow up]]'''
+|✅
+|✅
+|-
+|'''4. Community site upgrades'''
+|NA
+|✅
+|NA
+|-
+|'''5. Minor point updates''' for all supported versions and clients who have paid for that support package
+|NA
+|✅
+|✅
+|-
+|'''6. Retro workshop'''
+|NA
+|✅
+|NA
+|}
-Doing minor point releases is slightly different to doing a major release.
+==Links to documentation==
-For the purposes of these instructions, assume we are releasing version X.Y.Z of Mahara.
+#A week before the release: [[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Comms|Comms]]
+#[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Pre-release|Pre-release steps for developers]]
+#[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_day|Release day steps for developers]]
-On a major release, we apply any security and bug fixes that are included in a major release as a minor point update to other supported versions (backported). But we don't backport any new features.
+====Extra info for devs====
-Minor point releases are for security fixes or urgent bug fixes - these happen between major releases.
+*[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Creating_a_GPG_key|Creating a GPG key]]
+*[[Developer Area/Version Numbering Policy|Version Numbering policy]]
-'''Overview'''
+*[[Developer Area/Release Policy|Release Policy]]
-Release candidate - zip file is available on Launchpad (not for minor)
-Release candidate testing (not for minor)
-Release prep (yes for minor, but slight differences)
-The Release - zip file is available on Launchpad (yes for minor)
-Release follow-up - forums, bug report updating, admin etc (yes for minor, but slight differences)
-Upgrade community sites (Clients have to pay for upgrades) (not for minor)
-Do minor point updates are for all supported versions and clients who have paid for that support package (yes for minor)
-Retro workshop (not for minor)
+'''OLD DOCUMENTATION (Beware: only kept for posterity)'''
-===Release steps===
+*[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Old Major Release|Old Major release]]
-#[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Pre-release|Pre-release steps]]
-#[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_day|Release day steps]]
-Older pages kept for reference: (all the information in the pages below has been added to the pages above)
-*[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Major Release|Major release]]
-*[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Release Candidate|Release candidate]]
 *[[Developer Area/Old release Instructions|Old release instructions]]
-*[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Release_script|Release script]]
+*[[Developer Area/Release Instructions/Old Release script|Old Release script]]
-====Helper pages====
-*[[Developer_Area/Release_Instructions/Creating_a_GPG_key|Creating a GPG key]]
-*[[Developer Area/Version Numbering Policy|Version Numbering policy]]
-*[[Developer Area/Release Policy|Release Policy]]
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