Aluminium Formal Release Checklist

Pending	Complete

Event / Timeline	Status	Comments	Who
Communicate code freeze to projects	Done29 Jul 2020	1 weeks before code freeze happens	Daniel De La Rosa
Code freeze (stable branch lock)	Done 04 Aug 2020	1 weeks before any release.	Anil Shashikumar Belur
Pick RC and produce CSIT spreadsheet	Done 11 Sep 2020	All blocker bugs must be closed before picking the RC. This is tentative date.	Daniel De La Rosa JamO Luhrsen
Vet CSIT failures	Done 15 Sep 2020	Max 1 week after CSIT spreadsheet is shared	all projects
TSC votes the Managed release	Done17 Sep 2020		TSC
Remind PTL to produce release notes (only for GA release)	Done 17 Sep 2020		release manager
Publish released artifacts to Nexus	Done 17 Sep 2020		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Communicate Managed release to Self Managed projects	Done 17 Sep 2020		Daniel De La Rosa
Unlock stable branch	Done 17 Sep 2020		Anil Shashikumar Belur
Release All SM projects (including "official" distribution)	Done 22 Sep 2020	Max 1 week after Managed release.	All SM projects (including int/dist)
Update docs	Pending 25 Sep 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. 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 25 Sep 2020	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)