Revision as of 11:11, 5 January 2021

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

Before release day

Task	Description	Responsibility
Add info center	Run simrel.create_infocenter job on SimRel JIPP Run simrel.publish_infocenter_pipeline job on SimRel JIPP Set up infocenter on help.eclipse.org Update second most recent infocenter to show the "past release" header (Run job with "past_release" option turned on)	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 (15min before release)	Run simrel.releng.update_latest_repo	SimRel release engineer
Create P2 composite repository for next release	Run simrel.releng.setup_next_release Do not add index.html to dir! (see bug 544179)	SimRel release engineer
Update SimRel wiki pages	https://wiki.eclipse.org/Simultaneous_Release	SimRel release engineer
Send announcement email to cross-project-issues-dev mailing list		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
Upgrade community documentation	Upgrade https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F	Developers Community
Announce to user community	Post to "Announcements" and "Community News" on Eclipse website Send announcements to social media like (Twitter (with @EclipseJavaIDE), Reddit, ...)	Webdev team / 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 release name in simrel.aggr	Update label in simrel.aggr (see an example)	SimRel release engineer
Update build configuration	Update TRAIN_NAME in Jenkinsfile Update trainName, referenceRepo, eclipse.repo.url in pom.xml => Use update_build_configuration.sh script (execute on local machine for now) Update promoteToReleases.sh (FIXME)	SimRel release engineer
Re-enable aggregator job	Re-enable simrel.runaggregator.pipeline	SimRel release engineer

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