Endgame Schedule

• April 25, Code freeze for the endgame
• May 5, Endgame done

Tuesday, April 25

• 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

Wednesday, April 26

• Test plan items assigned
• All closed feature-requests either have a verification-needed or on-testplan tag
• Testing
• Verification needed
• Testing
• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the April milestone
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification

Thursday, April 27

• Fixing last issues
• Verification
• Run OSS tool after merging shrink-wrap findings endgame master
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry endgame master

Friday, April 28

• Pause scheduled insider builds redmond
• 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
• Translation input – Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• All issues verified
• Fixing (only critical bugs – no string changes)
• Smoketest
  • Windows – roblourens
  • OS X – Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Linux – Owner (@owner)
• All release notes updated – release notes are collected in a file named Month_Year.md in this repo directory
  • alexandrudima
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Sara Itani (@mousetraps)
• 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. owner
• Anotable fixes in the release notes ALL
• When done fixing/verifying and there are changes since last build at the end of day PT
  • Trigger new insider build and publish it manually Owner (@owner)

Friday/Monday

• Freeze insider builds – endgame master
• Branch code to release/<x.y> and release master – endgame master
• Bump up the version in package.json – endgame master
• Announce master is open for business endgame master
• Polish release notes redmond

Monday – Wednesday

• Polish release notes redmond
• Cherry-pick hand-picked and reviewed changes to release/<x.y> Owner (@owner)
• Build Insider from release/<x.y> endgame master
• Manually release Insider endgame master
• Documentation updated
  • alexandrudima
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Sara Itani (@mousetraps)

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

• Merge translations zurich
• Build stable for all platforms endgame master
• Make rpm signing request Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows
    • signed installer Owner (@owner)
    • zip Owner (@owner)
  • OS X – Owner (@owner)
  • Linux
    • deb package 32-bit Owner (@owner)
    • deb package 64-bit Owner (@owner)
    • rpm package 64-bit Owner (@owner)
    • rpm package 32-bit Owner (@owner)
    • archives Owner (@owner)
• Publish website Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Publish to stable Owner (@owner)
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/<x.y> in format x.y.z endgame master
• Enable scheduled insider builds endgame master
• Twitter announcement Sean McBreen (@seanmcbreen)