Magnesium SR1 Release Checklist

Pending	Complete

Event / Timeline	Status	Comments	Who
Communicate code freeze to projects	Done 20 Apr 2020	1 weeks before code freeze happens	Daniel De La Rosa
Code freeze (stable branch lock)	Done 29 Apr 2020	1 weeks before any release.	Anil Shashikumar Belur
Pick RC and produce CSIT spreadsheet	RC 266 has been picked.. CSIT spreadsheet DONE	All blocker bugs must be closed before picking the RC. This is tentative date.	Daniel De La Rosa JamO Luhrsen
Vet CSIT failures	DONE	Max 1 week after CSIT spreadsheet is shared	all projects
TSC votes the Managed release	APPROVED		TSC
Unlock stable branch	Pending		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Remind PTL to produce release notes (only for GA release)	N/A		release manager
Publish released artifacts to Nexus	Pending 14 May 2020		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Communicate Managed release to Self Managed projects	Pending 14 May 2020		Daniel De La Rosa
Release All SM projects (including "official" distribution)	Pending 21 May 2020	Max 1 week after Managed release.	All SM projects (including int/dist)
Update docs	Pending 21 May 2020	downloads page managed projects Platform Versions Page release notes release notes job (only for service releases) (jira to do this for major release). For GA projects PTLs have to push patch to docs.
Branch docs project	Pending	on master branch bump versions to next release (conf.yaml) Clear per-project release notes in master to prep for next release on new stable/branch update links to stable/branch away from "latest" (conf.py)	docs team