Revision as of 08:54, 6 February 2019

This is a chronological list of things to do before, on and after a release day.

WIP
This page is still a work in progress and tasks might be added or changed.

Before release day

Task	Description	Responsibility
Add info center	Run test.infocenter job on SimRel JIPP Set up infocenter on help.eclipse.org	SimRel release engineer
Check mirrors	Add URL of current release to org.eclipse.simrel.tools/checkMirrorsUtility/checkMirrors.sh script Run the script from local machine Result should show 40+ mirrors for current release	SimRel release engineer
Fix historical reports on SimRel JIPP main page	Add link to current buildinfo/reporeports on https://ci.eclipse.org/simrel/	SimRel release engineer

Task	Description	Responsibility
Update "latest" composite repository	Update https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest to point to current release repo	SimRel release engineer
Update various eclipse.org websites	https://www.eclipse.org/eclipseide https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ https://www.eclipse.org/documentation https://www.eclipse.org/getting_started	Webdev team
Send announcement email to cross-project-issues-dev mailing list		SimRel release engineer
Upgrade community documentation	Upgrade https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F	Developers Community
Announce to user community	Send announces to media like Twitter (with @EclipseJavaIDE) Reddit ...	Developers Community

Task	Description	Responsibility
Tag simrel aggregator repo	Determine final commit Tag org.eclipse.simrel.build with release name (e.g. '2018-12')	SimRel release engineer
Update build configuration	Update TRAIN_NAME in Jenkinsfile Update trainName, referenceRepo, eclipse.repo.url in pom.xml Update promoteToReleases.sh (FIXME)	SimRel release engineer
Create P2 composite repository for next release	Add download.eclipse.org/releases/<next release> dir with p2.index, jars Update jars Do not add index.html to dir! (see bug 544179)	SimRel release engineer
Re-enable aggregator job	Re-enable simrel.runaggregator.pipeline	SimRel release engineer
Update SimRel wiki pages	https://wiki.eclipse.org/Simultaneous_Release	SimRel release engineer

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-* Add download.eclipse.org/releases/<next release> dir with p2.index, index.html, jars
+* Add download.eclipse.org/releases/<next release> dir with p2.index, jars
-* Update index.html and jars
+* Update jars
+* Do not add index.html to dir! (see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=544179 bug 544179])
 | SimRel release engineer
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