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Polar Release Process

This document describes the steps to follow to create a new release of Polar and publish to the Github Releases tab.

Replace the version v.0.2.0 with the actual version number being released.

  1. Create a Draft release on Github tagged with the next version number (ex: v0.2.0), and the title "Polar v0.2.0"
  2. Create a new branch locally. The branch name must start with the prefix release/ so that the electron builds will be published under the draft release created in step 1 
    git checkout master
git checkout -b release/v0.2.0
  3. Update the version in package.json and the CHANGELOG.md file 
    yarn release
  4. Manually modify with CHANGELOG.md file to make it more presentable. Add a brief summary at the top and remove any unnecessary commits.
  5. Modify the README.md file
    • add any updates to features and/or newly supported node versions
    • update the download links to point to the new urls
  6. Commit your changes 
    git add .
git commit -m "chore(release): bump version to v0.2.0 and update changelog"
  7. Push your commit to Github 
    git push --set-upstream origin release/v0.2.0
  8. Confirm the CI build completes successfully and the binaries were uploaded to the draft release.
  9. Download and test the binaries on all OS's (Mac, Linux & Windows)
  10. If any bugs are found:
    • fix them in the master branch via a separate branch and PR
    • after that PR is merged, rebase the release branch on top of the latest master branch 
      git checkout release/v0.2.0
git pull --rebase origin master
    • Force-push the updated branch to Github 
      git push -f
    • This will trigger a new build and create updated binaries to test and confirm the bugs are fixed
  11. Create a PR for the release/v0.2.0 branch and merge it into master after the build completes
  12. Copy the release notes from the updated CHANGELOG.md file into the Github Release
    • Update the first line since the content is redundant with what Github automatically displays
    • Before: 
      ## [v0.2.0](https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0) (2019-12-21)
    • After: 
      > Full list of changes since `v0.1.0` [v0.1.0...v0.2.0](https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0)
  13. Publish the release