[DEPRECATED]

• Label some PRs with status/6-merge
• Go to your local rack clone.. go to master.. and git pull to make sure you're up to date
• Run scripts/create-milestone and note the milestone name
  • from this point forward if you wanted to add/remove prs from this release, you would just add/remove them from the milestone on github
• Run scripts/milestone-pr <milestone>
  • this will take all of the prs from that milestone and combine them into a single release pr
  • you can rerun this at any time to bundle the current prs in the milestone.. if you add/remove prs from the milestone, you need to rerun this command

Start following the checklist in the new release PR:

• For "Release branch" run /release create <milestone> in Slack #ops

  • creating a release takes ~18 minutes.. sometimes up to 20
  • if you see no space left on device in the release app, you need to run convox instances keyroll in the rack.

• CI builds: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/convox/rack

  • the workflows that end in "/ release" are release ci
  • you'll see one appear for your version after the release finishes.. when the release finishes the bot will post here to slack with the version a branch release will look like YYYMMMDDETC-BRANCHNAME
  • you must approve ci/circleci: release/additional-tests to run the update/downgrade tests, unless the latest release is broken or in a bad state.

• For "Release master" run /release create in Slack #ops

• For "Write release notes":

  • Go to https://github.com/convox/rack/releases
  • Click on your release number
  • Edit the release
  • follow the formatting of past releases
  • Click 'Publish Release' when finished to save the release notes

• to publish the release you need to do /release publish <number>

  • this will also create the entry on the community forums