February Endgame

[joaomoreno]

Endgame Schedule

• February, 2/21 Code freeze for the endgame
• February, 2/28 Endgame done

Tuesday, February 21

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms
• All test items contain sufficiently comprehensive test descriptions by 6pm PT

Wednesday, February 22

• Test build starts at 7am CET / 10pm PT on Monday
• Test plan ready by 8am CET / 11pm PT on Monday
• Testing

Thursday, February 23

• Testing
• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the July milestone
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification Since there are quite some old bugs to verify we verify by age, youngest first. The queries are:
  • Verification needed
  • Issues To Verify

Friday, February 24

• Fixing last issues
• Verification
• Add/update shrink-wrap files for built-in extensions if needed (see instructions) - endgame master
• Run OSS tool after merging shrink-wrap findings - endgame master
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry - endgame master

Monday, February 27

• Acknowledge Pull Requests in release notes. - endgame master
• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested, PRs acknowledged
  • vscode @bpasero
  • vscode-generator-code @aeschli
  • vsce @joaomoreno
  • node debug @weinand
• Translation input - someone
• Smoketest
  • Windows - someone
  • OS X - someone
  • Linux - someone
• Update the Release Notes (including notable fixes) and documentation.
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @bpasero
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081
  • @mjbvz
  • @mousetraps
• Freeze insider builds - endgame master
• Branch code to release/<x.y> and release master - endgame master
• Bump up the version in package.json - endgame master

Tuesday, February 28

• Branch code to `release/<x.y> - endgame master
• Announce master is open for business - endgame master
• Polish release notes - @gregvanl

Wednesday, Mar 1

• Merge translations - someone
• Build stable for all platforms - @bpasero
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows - someone
  • OS X - someone
  • Linux - someone
• Publish website @gregvanl
• Publish to stable - someone
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually - @Tyriar
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/<x.y> in format x.y.z
• Enable scheduled insider builds - someone
• Twitter announcement @seanmcbreen

[egamma]

Closing 1.10 has shipped.