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Release Process For Guidance Explorer

1. At the start of the iteration, decide features to be implemented for the release, including the existing bugs to be fixed.
2. Dev Team ensures new features are clearly defined, so implementation can begin, by Monday following the last release.
3. Dev Team ensures daily builds to all members of the team for continual use.
4. Dev Team performs regression and new-functionality testing on each change before checkin.
5. One member of team smoke tests every checkin to catch emerging bugs or lacking functionality in new features.
6. Dev Team ensures all the bugs and features are implemented for the iteration by Monday 12:00 PM PST before the release.
7. Team completes one round of test pass covering all the use cases by Monday 4:00 PM PST before the release, outcome is bugs identified and shared with the team.
8. All severity 1 bugs are fixed, severity 2 and 3 bugs are triaged, and decision of fixing the bugs or postponing them is informed to the team by Monday 5:00 PM PST before the release. Severity 4 bugs are not to be fixed for the release. Please refer Severity definitions
9. Dev Team fix all the outstanding Bugs and sends release candidate to the team by Tuesday 10:30 AM PST.
10. Team does a sanity test pass covering all the use cases and Ok's the release candidate by Tuesday 1:00 PM.
11. Releaser prepares the News article, download description (should be short preferably a line or two) and Known issue description and sends to Jason for review by Tuesday 2:00PM PST.
12. Team reviews / updates the articles and Ok's it by Tuesday 3:00 PM.
13. Releaser uploads the release candidate with the release description on GotDotNet site by Wednesday 10:30 AM.
14. Releaser update the known issue page on Channel9 by Wednesday 11:00 AM
15. Before updating the News article releaser makes sure he has all know how of creating news article using the HTML tags.
16. Releaser posts the News article by Wednesday 12:00 PM.
17. Team and others blog about the release and we are done.

Release Naming and Templates

Guidance Explorer

Bi-weekly we release a new build of Guidance Explorer:
File Name
GuidanceExplorer-<<20060607>>.zip

Name
Guidance Explorer Release <<20060607>>

Download Description
Build <<20060607>> is the <<third>> release of Guidance Explorer and includes both tool and library updates.

News Release
Title - Guidance Explorer Release <<20060607>>
Build <<20060607>> is the <<third>> release of Guidance Explorer and includes both tool and library updates. The new features added to this release (according to the main schedule available at Channel9) are:
* <<Smart Search Views
* Links between items in the library
* Ability to run Guidance Explorer with the library on a remote share>>

Please check the schedule page for details on each feature.
Please check the known issues page for a list of known issues in this build

Guidance Library

Weekly we release a new build of Guidance Library. We include the last released version of the tool in the download.

File Name
GuidanceExplorer-<<20060628>>.zip

Name
Guidance Explorer Release <<20060614>>

Download Description
This download includes updates to Guidance Library as well last week’s build of Guidance Explorer.

News Release
This download includes updates to Guidance Library as well last week’s build of Guidance Explorer.

We refreshed our content to make the guidance more complete:
* <<12 new or updated security guidelines
* 15 new or updated security checklists
* 11 new or updarted performance guidelines>>

Please check the library status page for a list of the items that were updated.

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