Endgame Schedule

• April 25, Code freeze for the endgame
• May 5, Endgame done

Tuesday, April 25

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms
• All test items contain sufficiently comprehensive test descriptions by 6pm PT

Wednesday, April 26

• Test plan items assigned
• All closed feature-requests either have a verification-needed or on-testplan tag
• Testing
• Verification needed
• Testing
• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the April milestone
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification

Thursday, April 27

• Fixing last issues
• Verification
• Run OSS tool after merging shrink-wrap findings endgame master
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry endgame master

Friday, April 28

• Pause scheduled insider builds @redmond
• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested
  • vscode @bpasero
  • yo generator @aeschli
  • vsce @joaomoreno
  • node debug @weinand
  • node debug2 @roblourens
• Translation input - @dbaeumer
• All issues verified
• Fixing (only critical bugs - no string changes)
• Smoketest
  • Windows - @roblourens
  • OS X - @rebornix
  • Linux - @owner
• All release notes updated - release notes are collected in a file named Month_Year.md in this repo directory
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @bpasero
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081
  • @mjbvz
  • @mousetraps
• 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. owner
• Anotable fixes in the release notes @ALL
• 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 @owner

Friday/Monday

• Freeze 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 @redmond

Monday - Wednesday

• Polish release notes @redmond
• Cherry-pick hand-picked and reviewed changes to release/<x.y> @owner
• Build Insider from release/<x.y> endgame master
• Manually release Insider endgame master
• Documentation updated
  • @alexandrudima
  • @weinand
  • @chrmarti
  • @Tyriar
  • @dbaeumer
  • @bpasero
  • @egamma
  • @isidorn
  • @joaomoreno
  • @jrieken
  • @kieferrm
  • @aeschli
  • @rebornix
  • @ramya-rao-a
  • @roblourens
  • @sandy081
  • @mjbvz
  • @mousetraps

Note: The Insiders build needs to be in the wild for 24 hours before we can enter the last phase of the endgame.

Thursday/Friday

• Merge translations @zurich
• Build stable for all platforms endgame master
• Make rpm signing request @Tyriar
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows
    • signed installer @owner
    • zip @owner
  • OS X - @owner
  • Linux
    • deb package 32-bit @owner
    • deb package 64-bit @owner
    • rpm package 64-bit @owner
    • rpm package 32-bit @owner
    • archives @owner
• Publish website @gregvanl
• Publish to stable @owner
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually @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 @seanmcbreen