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.

    ``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

  • 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.

  • Commit 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 new release note branch.

  • 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 Release
  • 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.

[martenson]

lgtm, thanks John!

[natefoo]

For this specific release we should add the make rules for the release itself that can be used going forward.