Developer Area/Release Instructions

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	Major release (XX.XX.0)	Minor point release (XX.XX.1 etc)
1. Release Candidate - Outcome: zip file available on Launchpad	✅	❌
2. Release Candidate testing	✅	❌
3. Release prep	✅	✅
4. The Release - Outcome: zip file is available on Launchpad	✅	✅
5. Release follow-up admin - forums, bug report updating, admin etc	✅	✅
6. Community site upgrades	✅	❌
7. Minor point updates for all supported versions and clients who have paid for that support package	✅	✅
8. Retro workshop	✅	❌

Links to documentation

1. A week before the release: Comms
2. Pre-release steps for developers
3. Release day steps for developers

Extra info for devs

• Creating a GPG key
• Version Numbering policy
• Release Policy

OLD DOCUMENTATION (Beware: only kept for posterity)

• Major release
• Release candidate
• Old release instructions
• Release script