ARC 6.4.0 planning

Task list

• Heads up for release to nordugrid-discuss with link to estimated timeline and main planned changes (@maikenp)
• Skeleton of release notes in place !887 (merged) (@maikenp)
• Identify a set of minimal tests for the most important changes (Developers)
• Any changes worth mentioning in the release notes must have a Bugzilla ticket, the Bugzilla ticket number must be referred as (Fixes BUGZ-xxx) in MR (developer)
• Check that MR titles make sense, and that all MRs have component and type labels (Developers)
• Install latest nightly before tag on minimum two production sites and fill out https://source.coderefinery.org/nordugrid/arc/wikis/Testing/ARC-6.4.0
• Latest nightlies runs w/o problems - report in http://nordugrid.pages.coderefinery.org/doc/testing/release_testing.html
• Release notes DONE (@maikenp)
• Translations DONE (@oxana)
• Create tag for release on master 34c283d3 (@maikenp)
• Start build for nordugrid repo (@waananen)
• Start build on Fedora and Debian (@ellert)
• Check that the supported platforms are up to date here: https://download.nordugrid.org/repos-6.html and here: http://nordugrid.pages.coderefinery.org/doc/common/repos/repository.html (@waananen)
• Push packages to the repo (@waananen)
• Add version to NorduGrid Bugzilla products (@waananen)
• Publish release notes on web (@oxana)
• Update the docs to reflect that new accounting had been released (@andrii)
• Update News about release: http://www.nordugrid.org/ (@oxana)
• Update link to latest release: http://www.nordugrid.org/arc/ (@oxana)
• Announce release on nordugrid-discuss and site-admins email lists (@maikenp)

Suggested timeline:

• Heads-up: Tuesday 12.11
• Code-freeze: Wednesday 13.11 or Thursday 14.11
• Testing of nightlies: Thursday 14.11
• Start build for release: Friday 15.11
• Release ready: Monday 18.11

List of commits in this release: v6.3.0...master

MR with release notes: !887 (merged) @nordugrid