3.8 release checklist

[fables-tales]

• Draft blog post (?)
• Checkout the latest code and get bundles current
  • rake change_branch[master]
• Update changelogs in all repos
  • Add version number and URL to each README
  • rake 'git:commit[Updates changelog for vX.Y.Z [ci skip]]'
  • rake git:push
• Update version number in all repos
  • rake 'gem:write_version[X.Y.Z]'
  • rake 'git:commit[Releases X.Y.Z]'
• Release gems
  • rake gem:release
• Branch X-Y-maintenance in all repos (if first X.Y release)
  • rake 'git:checkout[-b X-Y-maintenance]'
  • Update maintenance-branch file in each
  • rake 'git:commit[Updates maintenance-branch file [ci skip]]'
  • rake "run[git push origin X-Y-maintenance -u]"
• Update docs
  • rake 'relish[X.Y]' (exclude .Z). To run this you need relish push access.
  • rake 'update_docs[X.Y, X-Y-maintenance]'. To run this you need rspec.github.io in your repos directory, with the source branch checked out.
• Update version to X.Y+1.pre in master.
  • rake 'git:checkout[master]'
  • rake 'gem:write_version[X.Y+1.pre]'
  • rake 'git:commit[Bump version...]'
  • rake git:push
• Publish blog post
  • Use rake version_stats[vX.(Y - 1).0...vX.Y] to get version stats for post.
  • Put changelog release notes into blog post.
  • Run middleman deploy from rspec.github.io checkout to deploy to staging and TARGET=prod middleman deploy for a prod deploy.
• Tweet from @rspec account
• Notify mailing list (link to the blog post)

[myronmarston]

done.