Release Procedure Documentation

This document describes what needs to be done for a release.

  • check if all issues labelled release critical are fixed
  • check if jenkins master pipeline succeeds
  • run external link check (change follow-web-links in book.toml and do mdbook build)
  • fix real security problems unfortunately npm audit --omit=dev fix does too much and too little, cargo deny check seems to be more helpful
  • remove all WIP migration comments from migrations Find all WIP migrations with grep -rl "WIP migration" backend/migrations
  • check/improve reformatting
  • update mergedDatasets.csv
  • manually test dev.permaplant.net according to protocol
  • build https://build.libelektra.org/job/PermaplanT-Release/
  • git tag -s vX.X.X
  • git push --tags
  • create release PR to pump versions and new section in Changelog
  • write announcement

Yearly tasks

  • increase year in LICENSE