Release 1.8 Tasks

[swmitra]

Tasks in Development

• [2 days before] Review bugs open to the current milestone @swmitra
• All new open bugs have been reviewed @swmitra
• [2 days before] Notify committers of impending merge of master into release branch @nethip/@swmitra
• Notify ALF Team that we have reached String Freeze: DL-Brackets-IQE @saurabh95
• Merge master to both release branches @swmitra
• Give a head's up to the LOC team for LOC testing @swmitra
• Kick off release build and notify team to start testing when done @swmitra
• Create a Github Release using prerelease flag for release branch build for all platforms. Delete Obsolete Github Release Builds. @swmitra
• Post to Brackets-Dev Forum: details about Community Testing @swmitra
• Post to Brackets-Dev Forum: request Translations in release branch @swmitra
• Create update notifications and send to LOC DL-Brackets-IQE. Copy English translations to German & Spanish in case not translated. @swmitra
• Create beginning of release card @rbharti
• Run grunt set-release --release=N to update sprint number in master branches(brackets and brackets-shell) @shubhsnov
• Merge update notification translations back from LOC @swmitra
• Send reminders to translate Brackets Update Notification strings – Spanish @swmitra
• Translate Brackets Update Notification strings into German
• Update Getting Started content and send to loc
• README and How to Use Brackets" wiki page reviewed and any stale information updated
• New 3rd party code information is added to Third Party Component Usage and NOTICE on github [Suhas]
• Suhas Update wiki & TESSA w/ 3rd party dependencies
• Write Blog Post [@rbharti]
• Update Brackets Loc test procedure
• Release notes page on GitHub wiki added with information on features added, bugs fixed in the sprint, and major known issues. All "for release note" bugs added. @swmitra
• Regenerate and post API documentation to brackets.io @swmitra

Tasks in Testing

• Verify that automated Unit Test Cascade after build succeeded (test jobs succeeded) and then trigger signing process for release candidate.
• All bugs for all stories completed in the release are closed (or given an exception after review)
• All unit, extension and client & server smoke tests for the entire product pass – Win
• All unit, extension and client & server smoke tests for the entire product pass – Mac
• All unit, extension and client & server smoke tests for the entire product pass – Linux 32
• All unit, extension and client & server smoke tests for the entire product pass – Linux 64
• Test Win installer / verify digital signature on .msi, .exe, .dlls
• Windows: Scenario testing
• Test Mac installer / verify digital signature on .app & binaries (both vanilla and bundle)
• Mac: Scenario testing
• Test Linux 32 installer + scenario testing
• Test Linux 64 installer + scenario testing