Aditya Patwardhan 7de4210760

Add item for global tool

2019-04-26 16:28:09 -07:00

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Release Process	Maintainers Only - Release Process	Release Process for v6.x.x	Issue-Meta

Release Process for v6.x.x

Verify that PowerShell-Native has been updated/released as needed.
Check for PowerShellGet and PackageManagement release plans.
Start process to sync Azure DevOps artifacts feed such as modules and NuGet packages.
Create a private branch named release/v6.x.x in Azure DevOps repository. All release related changes should happen in this branch.
Prepare packages
- Kick off coordinated build.
Kick off Release pipeline.
- These tasks are orchestrated by the release pipeline, but here as status to the community.
- Prepare packages
  - Sign the RPM package.
  - Install and verify the packages.
  - Trigger the docker staging builds (signing must be done).
- Create the release tag and push the tag to PowerShell/PowerShell repository.
- Run tests on all supported Linux distributions and publish results.
- Update documentation, and scripts.
  - Update CHANGELOG.md with the finalized change log draft.
  - Stage a PR to master to update other documents and scripts to use the new package names, links, and metadata.json.
- For preview releases, merge the release branch to GitHub master with a merge commit.
- For non-preview releases, make sure all changes are either already in master or have a PR open.
- Delete the release branch.
- Trigger the Docker image release.
- Retain builds.
- Update https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/tree/master/3.0/sdk with new version and SHA hashes for global tool.