Releases

Frequency

The project follows a timed-release policy where a new release is prepared every quarter. The release numbering follows the Ubuntu-style format (e.g. 13.05.0 for the May 2013 release). Patch releases may also be prepared for individual components between the quarterly releases as necessary.

Milestones

GitHub issues should be tied to a milestone. Where the milestones are named after the releases (e.g. 13.05 for the May 2013 release). This allows the changelog for the release to be prepared easily.

Tagging and Packaging

All of the tagging and packaging of the releases are handled through manually-triggered jobs in Jenkins.

Note that these must be done in the correct order to ensure that the proper dependencies are picked up. The proper dependencies will need to be updated by hand in the pom files.

Publishing

The releases are made available through yum repositories. Again, Jenkins is used to create the content of these repositories. They must be copied by hand to the StratusLab yum repository machine.

There are also a couple of python modules (stratuslab-client and stratuslab-libcloud-drivers) that must be pushed into PyPi. Once these are tagged, they should be built by hand and then pushed into PyPi.

Announcements

A release announcement and changelog must be prepared for each release. It should be published on the website and then tweeted.