Iteration v9.5 (2024-06-08)
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Day 0: Init new development cycle
To be done until: 2024-05-12
(sunday)
- Create a new GitHub milestone for DietPi code https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/milestones
- Create a new GitHub milestone for DietPi docs https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Docs/milestones
- DietPi: Select issues for the new iteration in the new milestone and check for closed milestones from previous iteration
- DietPi-Docs: Select issues for the new iteration in the new milestone and check for closed milestones from previous iteration
- Create a new section in the DietPi Wiki
- A new development cycle starts with a subversion increment, or major version increment when we drop support for an old Debian version or old DietPi versions. The RC version during the development cycle is "-1", to clearly identify unstable version strings. -> Edit version
- Init
CHANGELOG.txt
(in the dev branch) - Add support to DietPi-Survey_report: Search for last release, e.g.
aSOFTWARE_NAME9_0
- Init
dietpi-globals
(in the dev branch) withG_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE
,G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB
,G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC
identical to the values in fileversion
(see above)
3rd week: Beta phase
To be done until: 2024-05-30
(thursday)
- Merge live patches from
master
and remove indev
. - Create pull requests for all required documentation changes:
To be done at: 2024-06-01
(saturday)
- Launch the initial beta as
.0
RC version - Advertise on GitHub
- Advertise on DietPi Forum with tag "beta"
- Advertise on DietPi-Banner MOTD
To be done at: 2024-06-02
(sunday)
- Advertise on website slider: https://dietpi.com/
- Advertise on X (DietPi account)
- Advertise on Facebook (DietPi group)
To be done from: 2024-06-02
- 2024-06-06
(thursday)
- Address bug reports with further beta iterations, e.g.
.1
and.2
RC versions
2 days before the release
To be done until: 2024-06-06
(thursday)
- Have a release PR open on the main repo which needs to be linked from the changelog/release notes.
- Assure that update server version and DietPi-Globals default version match.
- Have the docs release PR ready and reviewed, with release notes and required changes.
- Have a PR on the website ready to advertise the new release via website slide and have the docs PRs all ready and reviewed.
Release
To be done at: 2024-06-08
(saturday)
- Make the release
- Close beta topic in forum: https://dietpi.com/forum/tag/beta
- Publish the release notes in DietPi Docs (i.e. merge the release notes PR, do it as "Merge pull request" and not as "Squash & Merge")
- Trigger the documentation page update
- Link the release notes from website slider
- Update the MOTD
- Update software list in DietPi Wiki
Release announcements
To be done at: 2024-06-09
(sunday)
- Publish on Twitter (DietPi account)
- Publish on several Facebook groups (e.g. DietPi group)
- Announce on Hacker News and Reddit
- Forge and spread a press release
- Determine if a hotfix release is needed
- Create a new release plan
- Wikipedia page update (resp. Wikidata)