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Created Jul 29, 2021 by Cédric Traizet@ctraizetDeveloper68 of 69 tasks completed68/69 tasks

Release 7.4

  • Scope of the release:
  • Release Candidate
    • 1. Branches
    • 2. Housekeeping
    • 3. Actual release
    • 4. Publish and plan next release
  • Release
    • 1. Branches
    • 2. Housekeeping
    • 3. Actual release
    • 4. Publish and plan next release

We are ready to release OTB version 7.4.0. The following steps need to be done:

Scope of the release:

  • !828 (merged): New TerraSarX sensor model, based on the unfinished work of !553 (closed)
  • !833 (merged): Add deprecate tags in preparation for release 8.0.0
  • !838 (merged): ExtractROI: Test points inversion on index instead of coordinate
  • !840 (merged): Remove the "working around a kernel bug" warning during OTB binary package installation
  • !839 (merged): Rename the noise parameter in SARCalibration
  • !831 (merged): bug fixes in Sentinel 1 calibration
  • !836 (merged): Use Horner method for polynomial evaluation in SAR calibration
  • !835 (merged): Update geotiff in the Superbuild
  • !837 (merged): Fix Superbuild compilation with gcc-8
  • backport of !821 (merged): update expat
  • backport of !788 (merged): Fix build issue when libSVM is OFF or libsiftfast is OFF and Testing ON
  • backport of !822 (merged): Update openCV version to 4.5.1 for the SuperBuild

Release Candidate

1. Branches

  • (if major or minor release) Feature freeze: create the new release branch
  • (if patch release) Work on the already existing branch release-7-4
  • Make sure the version number in CMakeLists.txt is 7.4.0

2. Housekeeping

  • In this story, make a list of blocking issues for the release (if any)
  • Update release notes (walk the GitLab MR merged history and log all improvements)
  • Update the date in RELEASE_NOTES.txt
  • Check SonarQube
  • Run Debian spelling checker
  • Run shellcheck script from OTB-Devutils/Scripts/
  • Update translation for Monteverdi and Mapla
  • Sanity check the binary packages
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Test QGIS on qgis docker image

3. Actual release

Once all blocking issues are closed, and the previous steps are done:

  • Tag the release candidate
  • Update GIT_TAG for all official remote modules (if needed)

4. Publish and plan next release

  • Prepare and upload source packages
  • Promote staging packages
  • Update documentation
    • Cookbook
    • Doxygen
  • Update the SuperBuild archive
  • Release Candidate announcement on the forum

Release

1. Branches

  • Make sure the version number in CMakeLists.txt is 7.4.0

2. Housekeeping

  • In this story, make a list of blocking issues for the release (if any)
  • Fix compilation warnings on CI
  • Update release notes (walk the GitLab MR merged history and log all improvements)
  • Update the date in RELEASE_NOTES.txt
  • Check SonarQube
  • Run Debian spelling checker
  • Run shellcheck script from OTB-Devutils/Scripts/
  • Update translation for Monteverdi and Mapla
  • Sanity check the binary packages
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Test QGIS on qgis docker image

3. Actual release

Once all blocking issues are closed, and the previous steps are done:

  • Tag the release
  • (if major or minor release): Merge the release into develop
  • (if it's the latest release): Merge the release into master
  • (if patch release): Backport fixes
  • Update GIT_TAG for all official remote modules (if needed)

4. Publish and plan next release

  • Prepare and upload source packages
  • Promote staging packages
  • Update documentation
    • Cookbook
    • Doxygen
    • WordPress page "Home" and "Download" pages
  • Upload OTB source archive to Zenodo to create a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  • Update the SuperBuild archive
  • Release announcement
    • On the forum
    • On the blog
    • On Twitter
  • Forward announcement to news_item@osgeo.org (OSGeo news)
  • Remove public branches related to MR or bugfix merged before the release
Edited Sep 06, 2021 by Julien Osman
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