goose/RELEASE.md

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Making a Release

You'll generally create one of two release types: a regular feature release (minor version bump) or a bug-fixing patch release (patch version bump). Regular releases start on main, while patch releases start with an existing release tag.

Regular release from main

  1. Check out the main branch.
  2. Pick the new version. Use a new minor version (e.g. if the current latest release is 1.2.3, use 1.3.0). Save it using export VERSION=<new version>
  3. Run just prepare-release $VERSION. This will create a branch release/<version>
  4. Run git push origin release/<version> --set-upstream and open a PR into main. Use git log --oneline --cherry-pick --right-only v<previous-version>...release/$VERSION to generate a PR description
  5. Wait for the bundled version of the app which will be linked from a comment on the PR
  6. Test the bundled version of the app
  7. Tag the release: check out the release/<version> branch locally to the latest revision and run just tag-push to create and push a tag. Make sure it doesn't error. This will start the release which you can monitor here
  8. Once the release is created on Github, merge the PR and run just release-notes <prior release> to generate release notes. Copy these into the release description.

Patch release

Follow the above steps, but rather than starting on main, start on the release tag you're interested in patching. Increment the patch version instead of minor (e.g. 1.2.3 -> 1.2.4). Bug fixes should be merged to main and then cherry-picked onto this branch.

  1. Before proceeding, make sure any fixes you're looking to include in a patch are merged into main, if possible.
  2. Check out the release you're patching using the tag (e.g git checkout v1.3.0). Set the version by incrementing the patch version (export VERSION=1.3.1).
  3. Run just prepare-release $VERSION.
  4. Cherry-pick the relevant fixes from the main branch.
  5. Test this build. When ready to make the release, proceed to the next step.
  6. Tag the release: check out the release/<version> branch locally to the latest revision and run just tag-push to create and push a tag. Make sure it doesn't error. This will start the release which you can monitor here
  7. Once the release is created on Github, run just release-notes <prior release> to generate release notes. Copy these into the release description.

Note that you won't merge this branch into main.