Publication of Galaxy Release v 16.01

[jmchilton]

Prep:

• Create this release issue make release-issue RELEASE_CURR=16.01.
• Set freeze date (2016-01-04).

Branch Release (on or around 2016-01-04):

• Review milestone PRs and delay or merge or close each. Link

• Merge the latest release into dev. (Manual - but we should write make target in the future.)

  git fetch upstream && git checkout dev && git merge --ff-only upstream dev && git merge upstream release_15.10

• Create and push release branch:

  make create_release_rc RELEASE_CURR=16.01 RELEASE_NEXT=16.04

Deploy and Test Release:

• Deploy to test (2016-01-04 + 1 day).
• Deploy to usegalaxy.org (2016-01-04 + 1 week).

Create Release Notes:

• Review merged PRs and ensure they all milestones attached. Link (Manual - but we should write make target in the future.)
• Checkout release branch git checkout 16.01 -b 16.01_release_notes
• Check for obvious missing metadata in release PRs make release-check-metadata RELEASE_CURR=16.01.
• Bootstrap the release notes make release-bootstrap-history RELEASE_CURR=16.01.
• Open newly created files and manually curate major topics and release notes.
• git add docs/; git commit -m "Release notes for 16.01"; git push upstream 16.01_release_notes (TODO: Automate this step with a make target)
• Open a pull request for this new branch. (TODO: Automate this step with a make target and hub.)
• Merge release note pull request.

Do Release:

• Ensure all blocking issues have been resolved. Link
• Ensure all blocking PRs have been merged or closed. Link
• Do release (TODO: create a check a list for this...)

Announce:

• Stage annoucement content (Wiki, Biostars, Bit.ly link) on annouce date to capture date tags. Note: all final content does not need to be completed to do this.
• Finalize https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/doc/source/releases/${release}_announce.rst
• Post release notes to https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/index.html
• Create wiki highlights and post to http://galaxyproject.org News (w/ RSS) and NewsBriefs
• Tweet wiki news highlights (or RTD?) via bit.ly link to https://twitter.com/galaxyproject/
• Post highlights type News to Galaxy Biostars https://biostar.usegalaxy.org
• Email highlights to galaxy-dev and galaxy-announce @lists.galaxyproject.org
• Adjust http://getgalaxy.org text and links to match current master branch

Prepare for next release:

• Ensure milestone 16.04 exists.
• Create release issue for next version make release-issue RELEASE_CURR=16.04.
• Close this issue.