October 2022 Recovery 1

[rebornix]

• Create a milestone <Month> <Year> Recovery <1|2|3> @rebornix
• Bump the version number @rebornix
• 🔖candidate issues
• Assign candidate issues to the recovery milestone team
• Review the candidate issues, and if they pass the review assign them to the recovery milestone team
• All candidate fixes are peer reviewed and pushed to main and then cherry-picked into the release branch team
• Initiate insiders build from main
• Issues are tested in the insiders team
• Build stable for all platforms from release branch @rebornix
• Issues are verified on stable build and the verified label is added @rebornix
• Check https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/compare/release/<x.y> to ensure no other commits have been made in the release branch @rebornix
• Update the release notes and include a link to a query for the fixed issues @gregvanl
• Sanity check of installable bits (server instructions)
  • Windows 32 bit @dbaeumer
    • signed installer 32-bit
    • signed user installer 32-bit
    • zip 32-bit
    • server 32-bit
  • Windows 64 bit @dbaeumer
    • signed installer 64-bit
    • signed user installer 64-bit
    • zip 64-bit
    • server 64-bit
  • Windows ARM64 @sandy081
    • signed installer ARM64
    • signed user installer ARM64
    • zip ARM64
  • macOS
    • Intel (includes Server & Universal) @weinand
    • Apple Silicon (includes Server & Universal) @sandy081
  • Linux x64 @aeschli
    • deb
    • rpm
    • archives
    • snap (sudo snap install --classic --dangerous <file>.snap)
  • Linux server @chrmarti
    • x64
    • x64 Alpine
    • ARM32
    • ARM64
    • ARM64 Alpine
• Publish website @gregvanl
• Publish stable build @rebornix
• Create an official release @rebornix
  • Create a tag (make sure you pull the release branch first): git tag <x.y.z> release/<x.y>
  • Push the tag: git push origin <x.y.z>
  • Create a GitHub release: Open the GitHub tags, and click far right ... > Create Release. Use the correct title and description from our release notes. Example
• Close the milestone on GitHub @rebornix