Corrections in the release checklist.

- Add a note about creating the release in GitHub.
- Fix docs release process.

Signed-off-by: David Calavera <david.calavera@gmail.com>
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David Calavera 2015-08-20 11:22:31 +01:00
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@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ docker run \
hack/release.sh
```
### 12. Apply tag
### 12. Apply tag and create release
It's very important that we don't make the tag until after the official
release is uploaded to get.docker.com!
@ -351,6 +351,15 @@ git tag -a $VERSION -m $VERSION bump_$VERSION
git push origin $VERSION
```
Once the tag is pushed, go to GitHub and create a [new release](https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/new).
If the tag is for an RC make sure you check `This is a pre-release` at the bottom of the form.
Select the tag that you just pushed as the version and paste the changelog in the description of the release.
You can see examples in this two links:
https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.8.0
https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.8.0-rc3
### 13. Go to github to merge the `bump_$VERSION` branch into release
Don't forget to push that pretty blue button to delete the leftover
@ -358,25 +367,12 @@ branch afterwards!
### 14. Update the docs branch
If this is a MAJOR.MINOR.0 release, you need to make an branch for the previous release's
documentation:
You will need to point the docs branch to the newly created release tag:
```bash
git checkout -b docs-$PREVIOUS_MAJOR_MINOR
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/docs
git push -f origin docs-$PREVIOUS_MAJOR_MINOR
```
You will need the `awsconfig` file added to the `docs/` directory to contain the
s3 credentials for the bucket you are deploying to.
```bash
git checkout -b docs release || git checkout docs
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/release
git checkout origin/docs
git reset --hard origin/$VERSION
git push -f origin docs
make AWS_S3_BUCKET=docs.docker.com BUILD_ROOT=yes DISTRIBUTION_ID=C2K6......FL2F docs-release
```
The docs will appear on https://docs.docker.com/ (though there may be cached
@ -386,7 +382,7 @@ For more information about documentation releases, see `docs/README.md`.
Note that the new docs will not appear live on the site until the cache (a complex,
distributed CDN system) is flushed. The `make docs-release` command will do this
_if_ the `DISTRIBUTION_ID` is set correctly - this will take at least 15 minutes to run
and you can check its progress with the CDN Cloudfront Chrome addin.
and you can check its progress with the CDN Cloudfront Chrome addon.
### 15. Create a new pull request to merge your bump commit back into master