How to Make a Release
Overview
This is an updated set of notes regarding a software release. It is tailored to a release of Hyrax, but the same process can be used for any of our code.
- look for any tickets that have been bound to the label 'fix release x.y.z' and make sure those are completed.
- Using the Kanban board, when we are ready to release, follow the process outlined below.
- Once done, close the board
Old process overview
To plan a sprint there are two basic sets of tasks: cleaning up the left over bugs that have accumulated during the past sprints and then working on a set of predictable tasks. This page lists those predictable tasks and some notes about the various releases. In the burndown chart built by Jira, there is a Time Spent column that tells how long each of the various tasks really took. While it's impossible to predict how long some of the stuff will take, previous performance is the best tool we've got, as they say...
Set Tasks for a Release
The tasks identified for Hyrax 1.12.2 and the time it took to complete them:
- Verify CI build and fix as needed
- 6h
- Security Review libdap & bes
- 6h
- Security review OLFS
- 1d
- Source release libdap
- 30m
- Source release BES
- 3h 30m
- Build OLFS release bundles
- 1h
- Build RPMs for release
- 3h 30m
- Software packages on website
- 30m
- Update Hyrax release pages on website
- 2h
- Install new sever on test.opendap.org
- 2h
- Total time for these tasks used during Hyrax 1.12.2
- 33h
We did 9 other tasks too during the hyrax 1.12.2 release. The total time was planned as 3w 1d 5h and turned out as 1w 2d 2h 10m.