Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Backdrop 1.25.0 Release checklist #6116

Closed
3 of 41 tasks
jenlampton opened this issue May 16, 2023 · 1 comment
Closed
3 of 41 tasks

Backdrop 1.25.0 Release checklist #6116

jenlampton opened this issue May 16, 2023 · 1 comment
Milestone
1.25.0

Comments

@jenlampton
Copy link
Member

jenlampton commented May 16, 2023 •
edited
Loading

Scheduled for January/September/May 15, 2023 7pm - 9pm PT

Pre-release tasks

  • Merge minor release commits @quicksketch @laryn
  • N/A Move all unfinished issues to the next bug-fix release milestone
  • Review all closed issues in milestone
    • Issue titles should include a complete, but very brief summary of the problem.
    • Issue titles sould be in complete sentences, ending with a period.
    • Bug issue titles should start with Fix or Fixed,
    • New fearure issue titles should start with Add or Added.
    • Each issue should have accurate labels, especially the "type - " labels.
  • Close the milestone @jenlampton
  • Draft Release notes @jenlampton
    • Copy Preview release release notes, update as follows
      • Include a short, descriptive summary of the release, for example:
        • The Backdrop community is proud to release version 1.xx of Backdrop CMS, following our 4-month release cycle.
      • Include a section heading **Notes for updating**
        • Note if any changes were made to files outside the core directory, for example:
          • - No changes have been made to the `.htaccess`, `robots.txt` or default `settings.php` files in this release. Updating customized versions of those files is not necessary.
          • See this example for updates to .htaccess
          • See this example or this example for updates to settings.php
        • Note if updates (update.php) needs to be run, for example:
          • Use the text The database update script does **not** need to be run.
          • or **It will be necessary to run the update script** (located at /update.php) for this release.
      • Include a section heading **Changes since version 1.xx.x** are listed below.
        • Navigate to Actions
        • Select the most recent time "Release Notes Generator" has been run.
        • Download the release-notes artifact attached to the generator.
        • Unzip the file, and copy/pate contents into release notes draft.
        • Re-word issue titles to indicate that the problems have been fixed.
        • Note: This list can also be copied from the list on the preview release, but review closed issuses in the milestone
      • Verify the list above matches all changes since the most recent bug-fix release

Release tasks

Immediate Post-release tasks

Publicity tasks

Code tasks

Backdrop Website updates

2-week Post-release tasks

These should be done after the first bug-fix release or 14 days -- whichever
comes sooner.

Publicity tasks

  • Add a notification to the dashboard @stpaultim
  • Send a newsletter to subscribers @cellear

Backdrop Website updates

See Also
@jenlampton jenlampton added this to the 1.25.0 milestone May 16, 2023
@jenlampton jenlampton changed the title Issue Title: Backdrop 1.25.0 Release checklist Backdrop 1.25.0 Release checklist May 16, 2023
@jenlampton
Copy link
Member Author

Closing in favor of #6115

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Milestone
1.25.0
Development

No branches or pull requests
1 participant
@jenlampton