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Release Timeline
Following timeline is based on everything goes well.(Added some buffer time)
Step | Tasks | Goal | Actual | Comments | |
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Code Freeze and release start | Track ongoing PRs | Once 1.4.1 is released | |||
Cut the release branch | Check license headers | 5/17/2019 | 0506/2403/2019 | ||
Make code changes with necessary version updates | |||||
Cut the release branch | |||||
Update the version on master | |||||
Test the release and tag the release | Nightly test, Jenkins CI | 5/27/2019 | 06/04/2019 | ||
RAT check | |||||
Tag RC0 | |||||
Package artifacts and validate | Create release artifacts | ||||
Validate release package | |||||
Test release package | |||||
Scala release process | |||||
Begin apache voting | Start vote on dev@ | 5/28/2019 | 06/07/2019 | 06/08/2019 | rc0 and rc1 failed, rc2 passed on 07/10/2019: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/641cf0fddce623ff352ba9c7655938c0d16337bae4a8d290956ea130@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E |
Start vote on general@ | 07/10/2019 | vote on general passed on 07/18/2019 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5365cdab7dee08d220e32decc76fd54aa05e29bc891c416828cb64d2@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3EStart vote on general@ | |||
Finalizing and posting the release | Create the final release tag on github | 6/314/2019 | |||
Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir | |||||
Update the website using tag | |||||
Release the official pip package | |||||
Release the official docker images | |||||
After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded | |||||
Draft the offical announce email and review | |||||
Send out the email on announce@ | 07/29/2019 | https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/647e7f18217514ea06344f0f713798c9aac0adcdd16addbb044aa6cd@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E | |||
Update the apache blog | |||||
update the aws blog | |||||
send internal announcement | |||||