March 2021 Recovery Endgame

[TylerLeonhardt]

• Create a milestone <Month> <Year> Recovery owner
• Bump the version number owner
• 🔖candidate issues
• Assign candidate issues to the recovery milestone team
• Review the candidate issues, and if they pass the review assign them to the recovery milestone team
• All candidate fixes are peer reviewed and pushed to main and then cherry-picked into the release branch team
• Initiate insiders build from main
• Issues are tested in the insiders team
• Build stable for all platforms from release branch owner
• Issues are verified on stable build and the verified label is added owner
• Check https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/compare/release/<x.y> to ensure no other commits have been made in the release branch owner
• Update the release notes and include a link to a query for the fixed issues @gregvanl
• Smoketest stable bits (⚠️ MUST run with --stable-build argument ⚠️ )
  • Windows - owner
  • OS X - owner
  • Linux - owner
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows 32 bit @mjbvz
    • signed installer 32-bit
    • signed user installer 32-bit
    • zip 32-bit
  • Windows 64 bit @TylerLeonhardt
    • signed installer 64-bit
    • signed user installer 64-bit
    • zip 64-bit
  • Windows ARM64 owner
    • signed installer ARM64
    • signed user installer ARM64
    • zip ARM64
  • OS X - @TylerLeonhardt
  • Linux
    • deb package 64-bit owner
    • rpm package 64-bit @RMacfarlane
    • archives owner
    • snap (sudo snap install --classic --dangerous <file>.snap) owner
  • Server (instructions)
    • Linux @TylerLeonhardt
    • macOS @TylerLeonhardt
    • Windows @TylerLeonhardt
• Publish website @gregvanl
• Publish stable build owner
• Create an official release owner
  • Create a tag: git tag <x.y.z> release/<x.y>
  • Push the tag: git push origin <x.y.z>
  • Create a GitHub release: Open the GitHub tags, and click far right ... > Create Release. Use the correct title and description from our release notes. Example