Adoption
- Adopted by the committers as of: 2018-05
Policy
Release candidates for all major and minor VIVO releases will be available for public testing for a period of three weeks before publishing the official release. If subsequent release candidates are published as a result of bugs discovered in testing, an additional week of testing MAY be added to the schedule per additional release candidate.
Exception: Release candidates for point or bug releases MAY have a shorter period of public testing.
Notification of VIVO release candidates will be published to the following mailing lists:
The email template below will be used for announcing release candidates.
Initial Release Candidate Template
Subject: VIVO X.Y.Z Release Candidate - 1 ----------- Body: The VIVO X.Y.Z release candidate is available for testing. Pending any issues discovered in the testing of the release candidate, the X.Y.Z release is planned for <date>. The primary features/updates found in this release include: * ... The following is a full list of JIRA tickets found in this release: <link to JIRA query> There are at least two ways you can test this release candidate: 1) Download and build from the source code to deploy into a servlet container [1] 2) Download the pre-built artifact to deploy into a servlet container [2] 3) Start up the vagrant box [3] Please provide your feedback on the release testing page [4]. Regards, <Release manager> [1] https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/tree/rel-X.Y.Z-RC-1 [2] https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/releases/tag/rel-X.Y.Z-RC-1 [3] https://github.com/vivo-community/vivo-vagrant/releases/tag/vivo-vagrant-X.Y.Z-RC-1 [4] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Release+Testing+-+X.Y.Z
Subsequent Release Candidate Template
Subject: VIVO X.Y.Z Release Candidate - <2|3|N> ----------- Based on testing feedback [1] from the most recent X.Y.Z release candidate, the following tickets have been addressed and incorporated into a new release candidate: # <module-1> * <list of jira tickets> # <module-n> * <list of jira tickets> Please help with some simple testing of this release candidate: 1) Download and build from the source code to deploy into a servlet container [2] 2) Download the pre-built artifact to deploy into a servlet container [3] 3) Start up the vagrant box [4] The planned release of X.Y.Z has now been extended one week to <new-date>. Please ensure you have provided your feedback before then. Regards, <Release manager> [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/Release+Testing+-+X.Y.Z [2] https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/tree/rel-X.Y.Z-RC-N [3] https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/releases/tag/rel-X.Y.Z-RC-N [4] https://github.com/vivo-community/vivo-vagrant/releases/tag/vivo-vagrant-X.Y.Z-RC-N
