Commit 3333d8b87b157baa3420a1028257b93cdb1ef993

Authored by Sytse Sijbrandij
1 parent 3998bb3a

Include release candidates in the monthly release process.

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doc/release/monthly.md
... ... @@ -58,9 +58,11 @@ Check if changed since last release (~22nd of last month depending on when last
58 58  
59 59 After making the release branch new commits are cherry-picked from master. When the release gets closer we get more selective what is cherry-picked.
60 60  
61   -* 5 days before release: feature freeze
62   -* 3 days before release: UI freeze
63   -* 1 day before release: code freeze
  61 +* 5 days before release: feature freeze (stop merging new features)
  62 +* 4 days before release: UI freeze (stop merging changes to the user interface)
  63 +* 3 days before release: code freeze (stop merging non-essential code improvements)
  64 +* 2 days before release: release candidate 1 (tag and tweet about x.x.rc1)
  65 +* 1 day before release: release candidate 2 (optional, only if rc1 had problems)
64 66  
65 67 # Write a blog post
66 68  
... ... @@ -73,4 +75,4 @@ After making the release branch new commits are cherry-picked from master. When
73 75 1. Update VERSION and CHANGELOG
74 76 1. Create a git tag vX.X.X
75 77 1. Publish the blog post
76 78 -1. Tweet about the release
  79 +1. Tweet about the release
77 80 \ No newline at end of file
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