August endgame #33215

Endgame Schedule

• August 28, Code freeze for the endgame
• September 1, Endgame done

Monday, August 28

• Code freeze at 5pm PT
• Ensure we have a green build on all platforms at 5pm PT
• All test items are created (with "complexity" but not necessarily with full description) by 11pm ZRH time (2pm PT)
• All test items contain comprehensive test descriptions by 10pm PT
• Testers who cannot participate in testing check-off from list below:
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • alexandrudima
  • Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Chris Dias (@chrisdias)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Sean McBreen (@seanmcbreen)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)

Tuesday, August 29

• Test plan items assigned
• All closed feature-requests either have a verification-needed or on-testplan tag
• Testing
• Verification needed

Wednesday, August 30

• Remind team members to assign issues that they intend to fix to the August milestone
• Testing
• Fixing (self-assigned, milestone assigned)
• Verification needed
• Verification

Thursday, August 31

• Fixing last issues
• Verification needed
• Verification
• Run OSS tool after merging shrink-wrap findings endgame master
  • The LCA review of the ThirdPartyNotices.txt files is not needed anymore
  • do not forget to update the distro attribute in the package.json with the commit ID of the distro repo.
• Check new OSS usage is entered into the OSS registry endgame master
  • new modules

Friday, September 1

• Satellite modules/npm packages ready, version updated, smoke tested
  • vscode Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • yo generator Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vsce João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • node-debugadapter-node Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • node-debug Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • node-debug2 roblourens
• Check translations (check i18n folder git history for latest translations, then build locally and see the amount of untranslated strings) Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• All issues verified
• Fixing (only critical bugs - no string changes)
• Smoketest
  • Windows - Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • OS X - Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Linux - João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• All release notes updated - release notes are collected in a file named v1_16.md in this repo directory. This includes new features and notable fixes.
  • alexandrudima
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Acknowledge pull requests in release notes. We acknowledge PRs from outside the team. Use the thankyou tool to generate the initial contents of the section. owner
  • vscode endgame master
  • vscode-node-debug Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • vscode-node-debug2 roblourens
  • vscode-debugadapter-node Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • vscode-filewatcher-windows Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • vscode-languageserver-node Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • language-server-protocol Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • vscode-textmate alexandrudima
  • vscode-loader alexandrudima
  • vscode-generator-code Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-vsce João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • vscode-docs Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
  • vscode-css-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-json-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-html-languageservice Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • jsonc-parser Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • vscode-jscs Chris Dias (@chrisdias)
  • vscode-tslint Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • vscode-eslint Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • vscode-jshint Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • vscode-recipes Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • localization Daniel Ye (@danyeh)
  • vscode-github-issues-prs Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• When done fixing/verifying and there are changes since last build at the end of day PT
  • Trigger new insider build and publish it manually Owner (@owner)

Friday/Monday

• Disable continuous insider builds - endgame master
• Branch code to release/<x.y> and release master - endgame master
• Bump up the version in package.json - endgame master
• Announce master is open for business endgame master
• Polish release notes redmond

Monday - Wednesday

• Polish release notes redmond
• Cherry-pick hand-picked and reviewed changes to release/<x.y> Owner (@owner)
• Build Insider from release/<x.y> endgame master
• Manually release Insider endgame master
• Documentation updated
  • alexandrudima
  • Andre Weinand (@weinand)
  • Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
  • Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
  • Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
  • Erich Gamma (@egamma)
  • Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
  • João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
  • Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
  • Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
  • Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)
  • Peng Lyu (@rebornix)
  • Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
  • roblourens
  • Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
  • Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Note: The Insiders build needs to be in the wild for 24 hours before we can enter the last phase of the endgame.

Thursday/Friday

• Merge translations zurich
• Build stable for all platforms endgame master
• Make rpm signing request Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Sanity check of installable bits
  • Windows
    • signed installer Owner (@owner)
    • zip Owner (@owner)
  • OS X - Owner (@owner)
  • Linux
    • deb package 32-bit Owner (@owner)
    • deb package 64-bit Owner (@owner)
    • rpm package 64-bit Owner (@owner)
    • rpm package 32-bit Owner (@owner)
    • archives Owner (@owner)
• Publish website Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)
• Publish to stable Owner (@owner)
• Publish deb and rpms to repositories manually Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Add version with symbols to HockeyApp Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Add a git tag to HEAD of release/<x.y> in format x.y.z endgame master
• Enable scheduled insider builds endgame master
• Twitter announcement Sean McBreen (@seanmcbreen)