Phosphorus Formal Release Checklist

Pending	Pending

Event / Timeline	Status	Comments	Who
Communicate code freeze to projects	Pending 14 Sep 2021	1 weeks before code freeze happens	Daniel De La Rosa
Code freeze (stable branch lock)	Pending 20 Sep 2021	1 weeks before any release.	Anil Shashikumar Belur
Pick RC and produce CSIT spreadsheet	Pending 20 Sep 2021	All blocker bugs must be closed before picking the RC. This is tentative date.	Daniel De La Rosa
Vet CSIT failures	Pending 22 Sep 2021	Max 1 week after CSIT spreadsheet is shared	all projects
TSC votes the Managed release	Pending 23 Sep 2021		TSC
Remind PTL to produce release notes (only for GA release)	Pending 23 Sep 2021	Done automatically	release manager
Publish released artifacts to Nexus	Pending 24 Sep 2021		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Communicate Managed release to Self Managed projects	Pending 24 Sep 2021		Daniel De La Rosa
Unlock stable branch	Pending24 Sep 2021		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Release All SM projects (including "official" distribution)	Pending 30 Sep 2021	Max 1 week after Managed release.	All SM projects (including int/dist)
Update docs	Pending 30 Sep 2021	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. Main landing page Make sure the Managed projects and Self-managed project lists are up to date.
Branch docs project ( Only for GA release )	Pending 30 Sep 2021	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)