release_process.md

Agones Release Management

Release Cadence

• Versioned releases will occur every 6 weeks
• Releases occur on a Tuesday.
• 5 week development cycle, at the end of a which a Release Candidate (RC) will be released with the contents of master.
• For the next week, the project is in "feature freeze" - i.e. only bug and documentation (.md and examples) fixes during this time.
  • Any new PRs that are submitted during feature freeze, will be tagged with the label merge-after-release to delineate that they should only be merged after the full release is complete.
• At the end of the RC week, the complete version release will occur.

Release Calendar

• Web View
• iCal

Release Process

1. Create a Release Issue from the release issue template.
2. Label the issue kind/release, and attach it to the milestone that it matches.
3. Complete all items in the release issue checklist.
4. Close the release issue.

Hot fix Process

1. Hotfixes will occur as needed, to be determined by those will commit access on the repository.
2. Create a Release Issue from the release issue template.
3. Label the issue release, and attach it to the next upcoming milestone.
4. Complete all items in the release issue checklist.
5. Close the release issue.