kubo/docs/releases.md
Lars Gierth 4c5b32bfa2 docs: fix changelog list oneliner
License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Lars Gierth <larsg@systemli.org>
2016-09-09 20:25:10 +02:00

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go-ipfs releases

Release Schedule

go-ipfs is on a six week release schedule. Following a release, there will be five weeks for code of any type (features, bugfixes, etc) to be added. After the five weeks is up, a release canidate is tagged and only important bugfixes will be allowed up to release day.

Pre-Release Checklist

  • before release, tag 'release canidate' for users to test against
    • if bugs are found/fixed, do another release canidate
  • all tests pass (no exceptions)
  • webui works (for most definitions of 'works')
  • CHANGELOG.md has been updated
    • use LAST=v0.4.2 ; for n in $(git log --oneline --merges --reverse -n-1 $LAST...master | cut -d'#' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1); do echo https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/$n; done
  • version string in repo/config/version.go has been updated
  • tag commit with vX.Y.Z
  • bump version string in repo/config/version.go to vX.Y.Z-dev
  • update release branch to point to release commit
  • publish dist.ipfs.io
  • publish next version to https://github.com/ipfs/npm-go-ipfs