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13 - Some time during the week before the release date, say on a Wednesday, email a formal announcement of the upcoming release to the larger EAS community. The email should be addressed to DT-EAS-User-Group and CC-ed to DT-SFGIS-User-Group. Examples of this email were sent on 12/5/2018 5:41 PM, and 1/10/2019 11:09 AM and 2/11/2019 12:48 PM, and can be found in Outlook's Sent Items, or Deleted Items, folders.
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14 - At the same time that Step 13 is performed, the announcement will be sent to the All Company group on Yammer because a Yammer account (DT-EAS-Yammer) is included (and buried) in the DT-EAS-User-Group email distribution group. The sender of the announcement from Step 13 will receive an email from Yammer asking whether to post the email to the All Company group in Yammer. Click the Post Message button that is in the email, and when the posting is shown in your Web browser, edit this raw posting by clicking the "EDIT" icon at the bottom of the post. Editing at this point will consist of cleaning up the links and the layout of the post. Examples of edited Yammer posts are from December 5January 10, 2018 2019 at 712:42 04 PM and January 10February 11, 2019 at 12:04 53 PM.
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16 -If any consultants are going to participate in the release, then ask them to verify their VPN connectivity to all of the relevant machines during the week before the release. This will allow about one week to fix and test any issues that may be discovered. SER0210791 is a good example of a service request to extend the VPN access of an SFGIS consultant.
- Samuel Valdez Robert Gaston (Unlicensed)
- Dan King (Unlicensed)
17 - Re-send the announcements that were sent in Steps 13 and 14 on the Tuesday before the release (assuming a Friday release).
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Email
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Yammer
18 - EAS code freezes generally occur on the Tuesday before the release (assuming a Friday release). When an EAS release candidate has been identified, deploy it to the EAS QA environment (SF QA *
) on the day after the code freeze.
- Dan King (Unlicensed)
SF DEV *
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed)
SF QA *
19 - Formally qualify the release candidate in the EAS QA environment per the instructions that are here a day or two before the release. Store the test results in the (artifact) directory that is specified in the Bitbucket issue that was created in Step 3.
- Dan King (Unlicensed) User Interface
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Unit Testing
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Change Notification Emails
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If the release candidate was not successfully qualified, then proceed to Section 5 below, Cancel the Release.
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- Find the comment in the issue that should be pinned to the top, and then pin it.
- Update the value of the "Actual: " milestone that is in the issue's description, for example, with "2019-02-12-A".
- Update the version of the issue to the version of this release, for example "1.3.8".
- Update the milestone of the issue to "---------" (none).
21A - Visit every issue that was not resolved in every milestone that is part of this release, and perform the following tasks. This is the first step in rolling these issues into a future milestone:
- Insert the value of the "Target: " under the last targeted milestone that is in the issue's description.
- Update the milestone of the issue to "high", "medium", or "low". The most likely choice is "high".
22 - Update the Sprints and Product Releases table for all of the milestones that are in this release with the new information (see the lists of table columns below), ideally on the day before, or of, the release.
- Actual SV, Actual DK, Actual Total
- Difference SV, Difference DK, Difference Total
23 - During the morning of the release, the person who will perform the release, and their backup, should verify their VPN connectivity to all of the relevant machines.
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed)
SF PROD WEB
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed)
DR PROD WEB
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed)
SF PROD DB
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed)
SF PROD AUTO
24 - On the day of the release, re-send the announcements that were sent in Steps 13 and 14, for the last time, and preferably in the morning.
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Email
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Yammer
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25 - A few minutes after the scheduled start of the release, send an announcement that the release is about to begin. The email should be addressed to DT-EAS-User-Group and CC-ed to DT-SFGIS-User-Group. An example of this email was sent on 1/18/2019 3:05 PM, and can be found in Outlook's Sent Items, or Deleted Items, folders.
26 - Follow the instructions that are in the release's draft version deployment details page that was created in Step 7 above, and edit them as needed.
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27 - Send an announcement, that is analogous to the one that was sent in Step 13 above, that heralds the successful release. The email should be addressed to DT-EAS-User-Group, and CC-ed to DT-SFGIS-User-Group and DT-EAS-New-Release-Announcement. This is related to issue #234. An example of this email was sent on 1/18/2019 6:02 PM, and can be found in Outlook's Sent Items, or Deleted Items, folders.
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Email
- Samuel Valdez (Unlicensed) Yammer
28 - Complete the change request that was created in Step 9 above.
29 - Update the Bitbucket issue that was created in Step 3 above by setting the version of the issue to the version of this release, for example "1.3.8", and then close the issue. Do not forget to find the comment in the issue that should be pinned to the top, and then pin it.
29A - Close every issue that was resolved in every milestone that is part of this release.
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