Creating a release

Steps

• Plan
  • Create milestone
  • Select bugs to target
  • Pick freeze date, after which no big changes occur until release
  • Pick release date (and update milestone)
• Communicate to mailing-list foodsoft-dev@
  • Timeline
  • Invite translators
  • Invite testers
  • Ask if there are important things to include in the release notes
• Merge, test, check, double check
  • Start writing release notes
• At release date
  • Merge in last localeapp changes (review them)
  • Make sure tests are ok (Travis CI)
  • Finalise release notes and updateCHANGELOG.md
  • Bump VERSION
  • Tag
• Announce
  • on mailing-list foodsoft-discuss@
  • on Twitter
  • update freecode
  • on other places, if you like
• Celebrate!

See #196, -dev announcement, release announcement for an example.