solidity/ReleaseChecklist.md

Checklist for making a release:

• Check that all "nextrelease" issues and pull requests are merged to develop.
• Create a commit in develop that updates the Changelog to include a release date (run the tests locally to update the bug list).
• Create a pull request and wait for the tests, merge it.
• Create a pull request from develop to release, wait for the tests, then merge it.
• Make a final check that there are no platform-dependency issues in the solc-test-bytecode repository.
• Wait for the tests for the commit on release, create a release in Github, creating the tag.
• Thank voluntary contributors in the Github release page (use git shortlog -s -n -e origin/release..origin/develop).
• Wait for the CI runs on the tag itself (they should push artefacts onto the Github release page).
• Run scripts/release_ppa.sh release to create the PPA release (you need the relevant openssl key).
• Check that the Docker release was pushed to Docker Hub (this still seems to have problems).
• Make a release of solc-js: Increment the version number, create a pull request for that, merge it after tests succeeded.
• Run npm publish in the updated solc-js repository.
• Create a commit to increase the version number on develop in CMakeLists.txt and add a new skeleton changelog entry.
• Merge release back into develop.
• Announce on Twitter and Reddit.
• Lay back, wait for bug reports and repeat from step 1 :)