User:Tracy Graydon/Release Process

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Yocto Release Procedures

This document explains the steps in publishing an official Yocto Project release. This is intended to be a HOWTO Release Guide.

Yocto Project Naming Conventions

Yocto Project releases fall into four main types:

  • Major Ex. yocto-2.0
  • Minor Ex. yocto-2.1
  • Point (aka "patch" release) Ex. yocto-2.1.1
  • Milestone Ex. yocto-2.3_M3

A full explanation of release naming conventions, release types, and background can be found here: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_Release_Process

General Steps for a Release:

  • Stage the release candidate.
  • Generate or obtain release notes, if applicable.
  • Stage/create the Release documentation on YoctoProject.org (unpublished but ready to go).
  • Sync the release to the downloads area in preparation for sync to external mirrors.
  • Sign the release notes.
  • Sync to external mirrors.
  • Tag the git repos.
  • Publish the documentation pages.
  • Test the links to make sure everything works.
  • Announce the release.

Release Thing

Buildtools Page
Major/Minor Point Milestone
Release Notes Yes Yes No
YP.org Docs Yes Yes No
BSP Pages Yes Yes No
YP.org Release Page Yes Yes No
BuildAppliance Page Yes Yes No
Yes Yes No
Email Announcement Yes Yes Yes


General Steps for a Release:

Release of Build
   - Create the staging directory.
   - Remove the rpm/deb directories.
   - Delete duplicate files and extraneous blobs, and convert symlinks.
   - Rename tarballs to reflect current naming conventions. For example. poky-<githash>.tar.bz2 should be renamed to poky-<release_name>-<release_number>.tar.bz2
   - Generate the BSP tarballs
   - Extract the eclipse-plugin archive to http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/eclipse-plugin/<M>.<m> where M.m is the Yocto version
   - Copy the adt-dev repo to the live site (For release lines prior to 2.0.)
   - Create the md5sum table for the release
  • Copy the staging directory to the downloads directory
  • gpg sign the md5sum table
  • Create release notes, finalize, get approval, and gpg sign.
  • Create the release and BSP pages on yoctoproject.org
  • Create the documentation links for the release on yoctoproject.org
  • Sync the release out to the mirrors.
  • Once sync out is complete, verify that pages work, and download and documentation links work.
  • Tag the repos.
  • Verify the items on the RELEASE CHECKLIST: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_Release_Checklist
  • Post release announcement on Blog
  • Post release announcement on mailing lists (yocto and yocto-announce)
  • Update DISTRO and DISTRO_VERSION in master to be the main release+snapshot
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