Here is where we currently are in the release process. Current step in bold.
Summary
Release is complete
Release Precursor Steps
- Identify any pre-release blockers (“must-have features”)
- Wait for them to clear
Release Engineering Steps
- Eups publish rc1 candidate (based on b3486) (also w_2018_10 plus changes from DM-13741)
- Git Tag v15.0.rc1
- Branch v15 of newinstall.sh
- Github release lsst_demo v15
- Wait for first round of bugs to clear
- Repeat last 2 steps, -rc2 and rc3 candidates <-- final candidate is rc3
- Confirm DM Externals are at stable tags
- Full OS testing (see https://ls.st/faq )
- Tag DM Auxilliary (non-lsst_distrib) repos
- Git Tag 15.0, rebuild, eups publish
Binary release steps
- Produce factory binaries (produced using tarball-matrix)
- Test factory binaries
- Gather contributed binaries
Documentation Steps
Integration on v15.0 branch of pipelines_lsst_io
- Update Prereqs/Install
- Gather Release notes
- Gather Metrics report
- Update Known Issues
- Email announcement