checklist.md

UAT Release Check List

One Week Prior to Release (Friday)

• Finalize/close/move remaining issues in open Milestones
• Close Milestones
• Inform stakeholders at EJPress and IoP of pending release
• Open new Milestone

Week of Release (Monday - Thursday)

• Export UAT RDF from management tool
  • Project > Export > RDF Project Export
  • Format: RDF/XML
  • Thesaurus Data: Concepts, Deprecated Concepots, SKOS Notes
• Generate updated UAT files (see UAT_transform.py)
  • check that uat-chooser works
  • json for UAT Apps
    • split into top level groups (split_uat_on_top_level_terms.py) for the sorting tool
    • UAT_list for browsing and searching interface
  • javascript for @aholachek's autocomplete widget
• Write UAT Release Notes (see release_notes_generator.py)
  • summary notes & full notes
• Prepare and finalize local UAT repo, commit changes
• Update UAT transformation scripts in GitHub if needed
• Select new image for website header rotation
• Write annoucement blog post, schedule for release
• Update this checklist if needed

Launch Day (Friday)

• Push UAT repo (includes new UAT version, notes, etc) to GitHub
• Upload new json and javascript files to UAT website
• Push new version to UAT API
• Check webtools to make sure everything updated/didn't break:
  • AAS Journal Submission
  • UAT Concept Selector
  • UAT Sorting Tool
  • UAT Browse and Search App
• Troubleshoot anything that didn't update or is broken
• Update current version number on UAT homepage
• Update current version number on UAT About Page