Fall 2016 Release - 13.0 - Status and Discussion

Data Management
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#1

Here is where we currently are in the release process. Current step in bold.

Summary

Release is complete

W16-specific Precursor Steps

  1. Identify any pre-release blockers (“must-have features”) :tools:
  2. Wait for them to clear (see DM-8259 )

Release Engineering Steps

  1. Eups publish rc1 candidate (based on b2748) (also w_2017_6)
  2. Git Tag v13.0-rc1
  3. Branch v13 of newinstall.sh
  4. Github release lsst_demo v13
  5. Wait for first round of bugs to clear
    1.Repeat last 2 steps, -rcN candidates <-- final candidate is rc1 [yay!]
  6. Confirm DM Externals are at stable tags
  7. Tag DM Auxilliary (non-lsst_distrib) repos
  8. Full OS testing (see https://ls.st/faq )
  9. Git Tag 13.0, rebuild, eups publish

Binary release steps

  1. Produce factory binaries
  2. Test factory binaries
  3. Gather contributed binaries

Documentation Steps

  1. Update Prereqs/Install
  2. Update Known Issues
  3. Gather Release notes
  4. Gather Metrics report
  5. Email announcement
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#3

I’m not sure if this is the appropriate place to bring it up, but I’ve added DM-8615 as a blocker, since it will likely affect multi-user installs.