• Diff for "Teams/Webmaster/ReleaseCheckList"

This is template of the Webmaster's TODO list, which might not be authoritative or complete. To create a new release TODO list, add it to the list below and replace the @codename-1@ @codename@ @codename+1@ @codename+2@ etc placeholders, ensuring that you preserve the case of the placeholders in the values; replace "@Codename@" with "Bullseye" not bullseye".

• trixie TODO list

The following things need to be done for a release:

• [ ] Stop cron jobs (often, lessoften) and kill any running job related to the website (or wait until it's finished)
• [ ] Update banner: foreground picture, choose a background colour, change debhome.css (see commit 697d79d6e7143b99a4856868ab6310d68402f18d for reference)
• [ ] Take into account possible localized banners (e.g. Swedish)
• [ ] Update calamares screenshot in english/Pics
• [ ] english/template/debian/release_info.wml - update tags, if needed (respect the format):
  • current_release_codename current_release_date_codename current_release_newsurl_codename current-cd-release define-tag current_release define-tag current_release_date
• [ ] english/template/debian/release_images.wml - if any images are dropped we may need to update this (e.g. i386 was dropped for stable-live-images for bookworm, netinst multi-arch too). Warning: you may need to update the text description in the files in CD/ and distrib/ folders and subfolders to reflect these changes too
• [ ] english/releases/index.wml- Update the section "Index of releases"
• [ ] english/releases/@codename@/errata.wml - add a line, if needed, to point to the URL of the announcement for the point release.
• [ ] english/releases/@codename@/index.wml - insert release dates
• [ ] english/releases/@codename@/release.data - add tags reusing the already defined ones in release_info (see commit 97aa0f64b0405d91aa499a24bf21b1076c5acf1e for reference)
• [ ] english/releases/@codename@/debian.installer/index.wml - Have a look at english/devel/debian-installer/index for recent updates for the case it's needed to update some other things
• [ ] english/releases/@codename-1@/index.wml (remove if-stable- logic, use @codename-2@ as reference) and translations
• [ ] english/releases/@codename-1@/errata.wml add a line, if needed, to point to the URL of the announcement for the point release.
• [ ]english/releases/@codename-1@/release.data (use english/releases/@codename-2@/release.data as reference. Warning: trixie has no multiarch nor i386)
• [ ] english/releases/@codename-1@/debian-installer/index.wml (remove some logic, use @codename-2@ as reference).

If possible, update translations too.

Commit the changes (in your local copy) and rebuild locally to see if everything is ok. You can also build on www-master using sudo -u debwww NOMIRROR=1 NOSUBDIRS=1 /srv/www.debian.org/update-part folder/subfolder to make builds of sections and subsections (all languages) without pushing to mirrors. Some examples

sudo -u debwww NOMIRROR=1 /srv/www.debian.org/update-part releases/trixie - builds the releases/trixie folder and subfolders, without pushing to mirrors

sudo -u debwww NOMIRROR=1 NOSUBDIRS=1 /srv/www.debian.org/update-part index - builds the homepage and files in the top folder (no subfolders) without pushing to mirrors

sudo -u debwww NOSUBDIRS=1 /srv/www.debian.org/update-part News/2023 - builds the News/2023 folder (all languages) and pushes to mirror (Warning: it pushes *everything* to mirrors, not only the News/2023 folder)

Changes without pushing to mirrors can be seen online in https://www-staging.debian.org/

• [ ] Reenable cron jobs (often, lessoften)

IMPORTANT: Please coordinate with press@ and release team (#debian-publicity and #debian-release) because some of the tasks overlaps between teams. Have a look at the release team checklist and the publicity team checklist too.