On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:40 PM Abdelatif Guettouche <abdelatif.guettou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Alin, > > There are a few notes here [1] including the pre-Apache release checklist. > However, for the "pre-release" process, what has been done for earlier > releases is the following: > 1. Agree on a date to create the release branches. (I suggest ASAP for this > one) > 2. Keep accepting PRs on master and only backport bugfixes to the > release branches. (this soak period is usually 1 week) > 3. Start the release process. > > The release process includes creating the release notes, cutting the > first RC0 and calling for a vote. > We have [2] for instructions on validating a staged release. >
I can try to update the wiki with some of my notes from handling the next few releases including some email templates. One thing that I would recommend that you do now is make sure you have a GPG key ready and add it to this file https://downloads.apache.org/incubator/nuttx/KEYS https://infra.apache.org/release-signing.html#keys-policy You can find that file in the same SVN repository that is used for uploading release artifacts. If there is anything I can do to help here please let me know. > Creating the release notes is what takes most of our time. For the > past releases working with a Github Project helped a lot and allowed > us to collaborate effectively. However, Brennan has a tool that > automates most of this. He used it in the latest release. Happy to do this again if you want. I think it does make the whole process a lot faster. --Brennan
