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Native Open edX Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit Installation
Create RC or release tags
For each tagged repo, make tags for the release or release candidate. The tag name is different for the two:
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It's tempting to do this before creating the Vagrant box. In practice, the first time you create the Vagrant box, it will probably fail, and you'll need to make some fixes. Therefore, it's better to wait until everything works properly before you make the tag.
Announce
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to the community
For Birch, we did both an email to edx-code and a post to the engineering blog. You should also let everyone at edX know that the Open edX release candidate branch has been cut, and they should notify you of all bugfixes merged to master for the next few weeks.
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