Minor Release Checklist

Mixxx Minor Release Checklist

This process is followed when it is time for a minor release to the stable branch.

1. Source updates:
   1. Update CHANGELOG.md: Add list of significant user-visible changes / bugfixes. Instead of a date use "(unreleased)" (PROBLEM: This is very hard right now, requiring Core Team members to weigh in on which PRs are "significant". We need to fix this step)
   2. Update CHANGELOG.md: Also/verify add the actual date of the previous release.
   3. Add the automatically generated entry of the previous release to packaging/debian/changelog. The entry and version number of the current release is added automatically.
   4. Update CMakeLists.txt: Increment VERSION (Looks like project(mixxx VERSION X.Y.Z))
2. Perform Smoke testing with release candidate binaries (Does it launch, does it play music)
   1. macOS
   2. Ubuntu
   3. Windows
3. Add a git tag with a GPG signature. (Should be signed by a Core Team member).
   1. Update CHANGELOG.md
   2. export VERSION=X.Y.Z
   3. SKIP=no-commit-to-branch git commit -a -m "Release $VERSION"
   4. git tag -s $VERSION -m "Mixxx $VERSION" (double check identity / email you are using to tag!)
   5. git push --atomic upstream <branch name> $VERSION
4. Wait and Verify release binaries are available
   1. https://downloads.mixxx.org/releases/X.Y.Z/
   2. https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/mixxx
5. Release
   1. Make a release in GitHub
   2. Upload source code and executables to the Internet Archive Software Collection
   3. Update Launchpad
      1. Change "Fix committed" bugs to "Fix released"
6. Website updates:
   1. Create short news blog post. This can be a short copy of the changelog updates.
   2. Update website download page.
7. Release announcement:
   1. Discourse is updated automatically after publishing the blog post and visiting it on the website
   2. Cross-post to Zulip #announce stream
   3. Optional: Cross-post to Facebook
   4. Optional: Cross-post to Twitter

Promotion

1. Email package maintainers
   1. Debian/Ubuntu - https://packages.debian.org/testing/mixxx
   2. Gentoo
   3. Arch - http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=mixxx
   4. Fedora
2. Social Media / Forums
   1. Facebook
   2. Twitter
   3. LinkedIn Connected DJs group
   4. Reddit r/DJs, r/Mixxx, r/linuxaudio
   5. DJTechTools Forums