Release candidate (Wednesday, Jun 19)

• Ensure all new features are tracked via telemetry
• Announce the code freeze (not just to team but also to ptvsd and language server)
• Create a branch against master for a pull request
• Update the version in package.json
• Run npm install to make sure package-lock.json is up-to-date
• Update requirements.txt to point to latest release version of ptvsd.
• Update languageServerVersion in package.json to point to the latest version of the Language Server.
• Update CHANGELOG.md
  • Create a new section for this release
  • Copy over the "Thanks" section from the previous release and make sure it's up-to-date
  • Run news (typically python news --final --update CHANGELOG.md | code-insiders -)
  • Touch up news entries
  • [ ] Add any relevant news entries for ptvsd and the language server if they were updated
• Update ThirdPartyNotices-Distribution.txt by running tpn (typically python tpn --npm package-lock.json --npm-overrides package.datascience-ui.dependencies.json --config tpn/distribution.toml ThirdPartyNotices-Distribution.txt)
• [ ] Update ThirdPartyNotices-Repository.txt as appropriate
• Create a pull request against master
• Merge pull request into master
• Delete the release branch in the repo
• Create a new release branch from master
• Bump the version number to the next release in the master branch
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json
• Create a pull request against master
• Merge pull request into master
• Announce the code freeze is over
• [ ] Update Component Governance
  • [ ] Provide details for any automatically detected npm dependencies
  • [ ] Manually add any repository dependencies
• GDPR bookkeeping (Brett Cannon (@brettcannon))
• Open appropriate documentation issues
• Begin drafting a blog post (Luciana Abud (@luabud))
• Ask CTI to test the release candidate (Brett Cannon (@brettcannon))

Final (Tuesday, Jun 25)

Preparation

• Make sure the appropriate pull requests for the documentation -- including the WOW page -- are ready
• Create a branch against release for a pull request
• Update the version in package.json
• Run npm install to make sure package-lock.json is up-to-date (the only update should be the version number if package-lock.json has been kept up-to-date)
• Update CHANGELOG.md
  • Update version and date for the release section
  • Run news and copy-and-paste new entries (typically python news --final | code-insiders -; quite possibly nothing new to add)
• Update ThirdPartyNotices-Distribution.txt by running tpn (typically python tpn --npm package-lock.json --npm-overrides package.datascience-ui.dependencies.json --config tpn/distribution.toml ThirdPartyNotices-Distribution.txt; quite possible there will be no change)
• Update ThirdPartyNotices-Repository.txt manually if necessary
• Create pull request against release (Updates for the 2019.6.0 release. #6327)
• Merge pull request into release
• Make sure component governance is happy (ignoring: 2 packages with alerts, 3 with failures)

Release

• [x] Make sure CI is passing
• [x] Generate the final .vsix file
• Make sure no extraneous files are being included in the .vsix file (make sure to check for hidden files)
• [x] Upload the final .vsix file to the marketplace
• Publish documentation changes
• Publish the blog post (Luciana Abud (@luabud))
• [ ] Create a release on GitHub (which creates an appropriate git tag)
• Determine if a hotfix is needed
• Merge release back into master (Ian Huff (@IanMatthewHuff), Rich Chiodo (@rchiodo))

Clean up after this release

• Go through info needed issues and close any that have no activity for over a month
• GDPR bookkeeping

Prep for the next release

• Create a new release plan
• (Un-)pin release plan issues