Automate Release Post kick-off
Proposal
The release post manager job starts by running bundle exec rake "release:monthly"
This creates a new branch that's set up for the release. A few hours of manual work follow:
- create an MR with the release post template
- find and replace all the details described in the header of the template
- create 3 new branches and MRs that will target the release branch
- bugs
- performance improvements
- usability improvements
- create an MVP issue
- update the initial release post MR with all the links for the above
Automate this process as bundle exec rake "release:start"
. The job should output
Please, follow by reading the instructions in the generated release post MR: <link>
Follow-ups
Once this automation is ready, we could update the Release Post MR template
- emphasize to read the whole MR
- hide most of the check-work in an accordion
- add TODOs for the places that need checking in the MR description (e.g due dates)
Edited by Brian Rhea