releases.rst

title:	Releases
description:	The Deis Release Process
keywords:	deis, release, process, build, tag

Releases

When we create a deis release, here are the steps involved:

GitHub Issues

• roll unfinished issues into next milestone
• close release milestone

Chef Repo

• change cookbook revisions

• change chef attributes deis-cookbook/attributes

  • default.deis.build.revision
  • default.deis.controller.revision

• change chef metadata.rb
• upload cookbook to Chef
• berks update && berks install && berks upload --force
• git commit -a -m 'prep for 0.0.X release'
• tag the opdemand/deis-cookbook repo
• git tag v0.0.X
• git push --tags

Deis Repo

• bundle install
• Update berksfile with new release
• berks update && berks install && berks upload --force
• update __version__ fields in packages
• git status && git add . && git commit -m 'updating for 0.0.X release'
• git tag v0.0.X
• git push --tags
• tag the opdemand/deis repo
• tag the opdemand/buildstep repo
• tag the opdemand/gitosis repo

Client

• publish CLI to pip

  • python setup.py sdist upload

Docs

• create release notes docs

  • summary of features
  • what's next? section

• publish docs to docs.deis.io (TODO)

• publish docs to pythonhosted.org/deis

  • use web form at http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=pkg_edit&name=deis