November Endgame

[alexdima]

Endgame Schedule

• December 4, Code freeze for the endgame
• December 11, 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.

DONE

Monday

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms at 5pm PT
• All test items are created (with "complexity" but not necessarily with full description) by 11pm ZRH time (2pm PT)
• All test items contain comprehensive test descriptions by 10pm PT
• Testers who cannot participate in testing check-off from list below:
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • alexandrudima
  • Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Chris Dias (@chrisdias)
  • 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)
  • Sean McBreen (@seanmcbreen)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Tuesday

• Test plan items assigned
• All closed feature-requests either have a verification-needed or on-testplan tag
• Testing
• Verification needed

Wednesday

• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the November milestone
• Testing
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification needed
• Verification

Thursday

• Fixing last issues
• Verification needed
• Verification
• Run OSS tool endgame master
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
  • do not forget to update the distro attribute in the package.json with the commit ID of the distro repo.
  • Create list for team members to enter new OSS usage into the OSS registry endgame master

Friday

• Register new components in OSS registry
  • bindings@1.3.0 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • byline@5.0.0 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Ikuyadeu/vscode-R@0.0.0 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • @types/source-map@0.1.29 roblourens
  • async-limiter@1.0.0 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • atom/language-shellscript@0.0.0 alexandrudima
  • chrome-remote-interface@0.25.3 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • commander@2.11.0 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • file-type@7.2.0 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • mkdirp@0.5.1 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • mmims/language-batchfile@0.0.0 alexandrudima
  • noice-json-rpc@1.0.1 roblourens
  • remove-trailing-separator@1.1.0 Andre Weinand (@weinand) or roblourens
  • spdlog original@0.14.0 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested
  • vscode Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • yo generator Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vsce João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • node-debugadapter-node Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • node-debug Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • node-debug2 roblourens
• Check translations (check i18n folder git history for latest translations, then build locally and see the amount of untranslated strings) Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Verification needed
• Fixing (only critical bugs - no string changes)
• Smoketest
  • Windows Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • OS X Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Linux Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Verification
• All release notes updated - release notes are collected in a file named v1_19.md in this repo directory. This includes new features and notable fixes.
  • 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)
• 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 and publish it manually change author

Friday or Monday week 2

• Disable continuous 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 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Monday week 2 - Wednesday week 2

• Polish release notes Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Cherry-pick hand-picked and reviewed changes to release/<x.y> change author
• Build Insider from release/<x.y> endgame master
• Manually release Insider endgame master
• 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)

Thursday/Friday week 2

• Merge translations PR (if it makes it in time) endgame master
• 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 64-bit Owner (@owner)
    • deb package 32-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 version with symbols to HockeyApp 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)

[Tyriar]

Closing as we shipped v1.19