EndGame Schedule

• January 29th Code freeze for the endgame
• February 2nd Endgame done

Note: The Insiders build needs to be in the wild for 24 hours before we can enter the last phase of the endgame.

Monday

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms
• All test items contain sufficiently comprehensive test descriptions by 6pm PT

Tuesday

• Test plan items assigned
• All closed feature-requests either have a verification-needed or on-testplan tag
• Test build starts at 7am CET / 10pm PT on Monday
• Test plan ready by 8am CET / 11pm PT on Monday
• Testing

Wednesday

• Complete Testing
• Verify features that need verfification
• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the current milestone
• Fixing bugs (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Bug Verification

Thursday

• Fixing major bugs (scrutiny sets in – major bugs only – to be discussed in stand-up meeting, labeled as candidate)
• Bug Verification and features that need verfification
• Start updating release notes
  • release notes are collected in a file named Major_Minor.md in this repo directory
• Run OSS tool after merge output Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

Friday

• Pause scheduled insider builds Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested
  • vscode Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • yo generator Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vsce João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • node debug Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • node debug2 roblourens
  • node debugadapter Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• All issues verified
• Fixing (only critical bugs – no string changes, major bugs only – to be discussed in stand-up meeting, labeled as candidate)
• Smoketest
  • Windows – Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • OS X – Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Linux – João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• All release notes updated with features and notable fixes
  • alexandrudima
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Pine (@octref)
  • Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Acknowledge pull requests in release notes. We acknowledge PRs from outside the team. Use the thankyou tool to generate the initial contents of the section.
  • vscode endgame master
  • vscode-node-debug Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • vscode-node-debug2 roblourens
  • vscode-debugadapter-node Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • vscode-filewatcher-windows Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • vscode-languageserver-node Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • language-server-protocol Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • vscode-textmate alexandrudima
  • vscode-loader alexandrudima
  • vscode-generator-code Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-vsce João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • vscode-docs Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
  • vscode-css-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-json-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-html-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • jsonc-parser Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-jscs Chris Dias (@chrisdias)
  • vscode-tslint Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • vscode-eslint Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • vscode-jshint Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
  • vscode-recipes Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg)
  • localization Daniel Ye (@danyeh)
  • vscode-github-issues-prs Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• When done fixing/verifying and there are changes since last build at the end of day PT
  • Trigger new insider build Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • and publish it manually Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)

Friday/Monday

• Branch code to `release/<x.y> alexandrudima
• Announce master is open for business alexandrudima
• Let Daniel Ye know that the release branch release/<x.y> got created and that translation should be pulled from there and that the pull request has to be created against that branch alexandrudima
• Polish release notes redmond

Monday – Wednesday

• Polish release notes redmond
• Cherry-pick hand-picked and reviewed changes to release/<x.y> Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a), @ alexandrudima
• Build Insider from release/<x.y> @Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Manually release Insider Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
• Another round of Smoketest
  • Windows – Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • OS X – roblourens
  • Linux – Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
• Merge the translation pull request into the release/<x.y> and master branch Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Documentation updated
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • alexandrudima
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Pine (@octref)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Note: The Insiders build needs to be in the wild for 24 hours before we can enter the last phase of the endgame.

Thursday/Friday

• Check translations (check i18n folder git history for latest translations, then build locally and see the amount of untranslated strings) zurich
• Build stable for all platforms Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)/alexandrudima
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/<x.y> in format x.y.z (for vscode.d.ts download) Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)/alexandrudima
• new Make sure that the vsda module version in stable is the same as in insiders (which matches the latest electron) Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)/alexandrudima
• Make rpm signing request Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows
    • signed installer 32-bit Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
    • signed installer 64-bit roblourens
    • zip 32-bit Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
    • zip 64-bit roblourens
  • OS X – Pine (@octref)
  • Linux
    • deb package 32-bit Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
    • deb package 64-bit Rachel Macfarlane (@RMacfarlane)
    • rpm package 64-bit Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
    • rpm package 32-bit Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
    • archives Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Publish website Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Publish to stable Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Add version with symbols to HockeyApp Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Enable scheduled insider builds Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Twitter announcement Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg)

Recovery Build

Day 1 (2/13)

• Create a milestone <Month> Recovery <year> Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Include an issue ‘update translations’ Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Assign candidate issues to the recovery milestone @team
• Review the candidate issues, and if they pass the review assign them to the recovery milestone @team
• All candiate fixes are peer reviewed and pushed to master and then cherry-picked into the release branch @team
• Initiate stable build from master
• Issues are verified on stable build and the verified label is added @team
• Smoketest stable bits
  • Windows – Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • OS X – Pine (@octref)
  • Linux – Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
• Make rpm signing request Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

Day 2 (2/14)

• Check https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/compare/release/<x.y> to ensure no other commits have been made in the release branch Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Sanity check installable stable bits that have not been smoke tested
  • Windows alexandrudima
    • signed installer 32-bit zurich
    • signed installer 64-bit zurich
    • zip 32-bit zurich
    • zip 64-bit zurich
  • OS X – Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Linux
    • deb package 32-bit Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
    • deb package 64-bit Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
    • rpm package 64-bit Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
    • rpm package 32-bit Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
    • archives Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
• Update the release notes and include a link to a query for the fixed issues Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Publish website Erich Gamma (@egamma)
• Publish stable build Erich Gamma (@egamma)
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/<x.y> in format x.y.z João Moreno (@joaomoreno)