Task description

Once the decision has been made to declare an image for each target Board Gold Master there are several tasks to do:

• Introduce a tag in meta-genivi-dev and genivi-dev-platform referring to the release. (done, relevant tags + branches in place)
• Create a specific readme.md for the branch, with information specific for the release.
• Create metadata based on Gold Master.
• Sign the images and metadata.
• Communicate to the Release team the place to download the image and metadata
• Communicate Release date/time.
• Communicate the release date to: marketing, PMO, community management

Request redirection of http://projects.genivi.org/gdp/release_announcement to the blog post with the new release announcement, which view should be restricted until the RT.

This task is better described in the Release Howto

Deliverables

• GDP 11 beta branch creation
  • Link: https://github.com/GENIVI/genivi-dev-platform/tree/gdp-11-beta
• Readme file for the branch created
  *Link: https://github.com/GENIVI/genivi-dev-platform/blob/gdp-11-beta/README.md
• Tags applied to genivi-dev-platform and meta-genivi-dev (done where applicable)
• Images and metadata signed
• Gold Master declared
  • RD= Wednesday Aug 3rd
  • RT= 11:00 UTC
• Gold Master communicated