RELEASE.md

Release Guide for the Platform

Release

• Pre Release Checklist
• Start Release
• Finish Release
• Publish Release
• Post Release Checklist

Pre Release Checklist

1. Changelog needs to be updated with all release features/fixes/enhancements.
2. Notifications need to be updated in the covalent home screen.
3. Make sure the platform package.jsons point to the correct versions.
4. ng serve --aot works fine.
5. npm run build works fine.

Start Release

Execute npm run start-release -- [version] to start the automatic release process. The steps executed are:

1. Creating a release/v[version] branch using git flow release.
2. Bumping its version to [version] release and commiting bumped version files.
3. Publishing release/v[version] branch into repository.
4. Executes npm run lint and npm run test.

The release is published in case there is a need for any additional tests, version fixes or bug fixes. This can be added before it is actually released.

Finish Release

Execute git flow release finish v[version] and npm run finish-release to finish the release process. The steps executed are:

1. Finishes, tags and deletes the release/[version] branch.
2. Pushes the new [version] tag into the repository.
3. Merges release into develop and pushes changes to repository.
4. Merges release into master and pushes changes to repository.
5. Returns to develop branch.

Publish Release

Execute npm run npm-publish from develop branch to start the automatic publishing process. The steps executed are:

1. Executes npm run build process.
2. Executes bash scripts/npm-publish process.

Post Release Checklist

1. Deploy to ghpages using npm run ghpages-deploy
2. Update release plnkr (and nightly release plnkr if needed)
3. Update Covalent Quickstart (or Seed) with small commits to show step by step the upgrade process
4. Update UPGRADE.md as necessary.
5. Throw party~