Cypress Release Checklist

Make & Announce Dates for Cutting Cypress

Announce to internal teams and edx-code
Make sure Solutions team on board 

Open Source

@Sarina Canelake (Unlicensed)

mid-June

Figure out what services to include in the release

See lower on this page

Product

@Beth Porter (Deactivated)

mid June

Tag a sane ref in the repos

Open Source

@David Baumgold (Deactivated)

Week of 7/6

Build new base boxes

Includes: making and executing a test plan; building boxes for bugfix cycles

DevOps

@Edward Zarecor (Do Not Use) (Deactivated)

Week of 7/6

Coordinate with Documentation release notes

Docs, + Open Source support

@hoeberR (Deactivated), @David Baumgold (Deactivated)

@Alison Hodges

Week of 7/22 (start week of 7/6)

Bugfix Cycle Coordination

Includes: communication with developers (internal & external) about Cypress awareness,
charting what needs to get into the RC,  working with Ops to get new boxes made

Open Source

@David Baumgold (Deactivated)

Cypress Bugfixes@David Baumgold (Deactivated)

7/6 -> release date

Migration Scripts

DevOps, + Open Source support

@Edward Zarecor (Do Not Use) (Deactivated), @David Baumgold (Deactivated)

Week of 7/13 -> release date

Advertising & Marketing

Open Source

@David Baumgold (Deactivated)

7/30 (should start ASAP)

Make a plan for Bitnami, & communicate it with Bitnami

Product

@Beth Porter (Deactivated)

7/31

Make a plan for security fixes

Document SLA around security fixes for named releases going forward
(working group; figure out what constitutes a need for named release security patch) 

Open Source + Ops

@Ned Batchelder (Deactivated), @Edward Zarecor (Do Not Use) (Deactivated), @David Baumgold (Deactivated)

7/31