Sites Releases

Release procedure
- At 10AM
- At 11AM

Effective Monday, March 23rd 2020, changes in the sites repository will be released regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11AM. These releases will contain all code in the master branch at that time, and will be performed by the Control Panel teammate on call. Notifications of the release will be sent via email and Slack out one hour prior to the repository being tagged to provide time for removing anything that has been merged that is not ready for production deployment.

Sites changes may still be released outside of these windows in the cases of expedites, etc., but those should be the exception rather than the rule.

Release procedure

The following steps are to be taken by the Control Panel person on call each Tuesday and Thursday.

At 10AM

Identify the changes going out

In your local clone of sites, check out the master branch, and update it to match what's currently in the upstream repository. You'll then want to check the list of changes since the last tag.

To get the most recent tag, you can run the following command:

git describe --tags --abbrev=0

A script is available to pull information on tickets from Jira which will work handily with git logs piped to it. You can find that script here.

Running a git log for changes since the last tag and piping it to the jira utility script will give you a report of the unique jira issues found and their relevant details:

git log 1.212.0.. | jira -i

Issue          Status          Summary
CC-5343        In Development  As Molly I want to be able to add an EXISTING custom field to my signup form on my landing page so that I can get more specific customer info
CCPANEL-10176  Closed          INVESTIGATE: "OR" search on tags | Backend
CCPANEL-10294  Testing         Update character limits for subscribers for consistency
INT-4298       Testing         Integrations JS App: Setup pages

Notify teams via email

Send an announcement to the development mailing list:

  To: dev@aweber.net
  From: "Your Name" <xxxxxxx@aweber.com>
  Subject: Sites Release 2020-04-07

  Sites is scheduled for release in one hour. The following tickets have commits
  since the last tag:

  | Issue         | Status         | Summary                                                                                                                                       |
  |---------------+----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  | CC-5343       | In Development | As Molly I want to be able to add an EXISTING custom field to my signup form on my landing page so that I can get more specific customer info |
  | CCPANEL-10176 | Closed         | INVESTIGATE: "OR" search on tags - Backend                                                                                                    |
  | CCPANEL-10294 | Testing        | Update character limits for subscribers for consistency                                                                                       |
  | INT-4298      | Testing        | Integrations JS App: Setup pages                                                                                                              |

  Please review your tickets and ensure that only code that is ready to release is
  in the sites master branch. The master branch will be tagged and released at
  11am.

Notify teams via Slack

Post a notice in the #devel room in Slack. Tag any teams that have changes in the release:

Sites is scheduled to be released at 11:00 today. If you have any changes please make sure they're ready for release or are removed by then.

CC-5343

CCPANEL-10176

CCPANEL-10294

INT-4298

/cc @cc-team @cp-team @integrations-team

At 11AM

Tag the master branch on the sites repo and push the tag to the upstream repository.

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