Release next-beta 1.9.0

[5chdn]

Step 0: Tighten Roadmap:

• Decide on rough timeline
  • Feature freeze: Dec 31, 2017
  • Estimaged release: Jan 22, 2018
• Decide on important features to be inlcuded
  • User Interface 2.0
  • Bug Fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes, ...

Step 1: Wind up development:

• notify devs to submit any remaining PRs
• notify core devs about feature-freeze (Dec-31)
• check for release-blockers (let's make them bold)
  • Initial Sync disk IO / write amplification / disk usage Initial Sync disk IO / write amplification / disk usage #6280
  • Parity warp sync is no longer very warpy. Parity warp sync is no longer very warpy. #6372
  • Update Branding Everywhere #7294mismatch"'**
• check for known high-priority bugs and tasks (feel free to add tickets here)
  • Stage 1 block verification failed for 5c00…6234: Block(DifficultyOutOfBounds(OutOfBounds { min: None, max: Some(340282366920938463463374607431768211455), found: 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 })) Stage 1 block verification failed for 5c00…6234: Block(DifficultyOutOfBounds(OutOfBounds { min: None, max: Some(340282366920938463463374607431768211455), found: 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 })) #5689
  • Skipping the account creation wizard fails Skipping the account creation wizard fails #6158
  • Cannot run Rust tests on Parity Gitlab in the specific scenario Cannot run Rust tests on Parity Gitlab in the specific scenario #6507
  • Last part of util refactor Last part of util refactor #6693
  • Stage 1 block verification failed Stage 1 block verification failed #6704
  • UnknownUncleParent while syncing UnknownUncleParent while syncing #6761
  • thread '' has overflowed its stack thread '<unknown>' has overflowed its stack #6821
  • Thread 'IO Worker #0' panicked at 'DB flush failed.: "Error converting string"' Thread 'IO Worker #0' panicked at 'DB flush failed.: "Error converting string"' #6959
  • RPC using high cpu & Upgrade to 1.7.8 failed ！RPC using high cpu & Upgrade to 1.7.8 failed #6981
  • 100% CPU utilization and RPC service doesn’t response 100% CPU utilization and RPC service doesn’t response #6983
  • mac binaries for ethabi, ethstore, ethkey mac binaries for ethabi, ethstore, ethkey #7119
  • Tokens not showing up Tokens not showing up #7126
  • Parity creating snapshots even if disabled Parity creating snapshots even if disabled #7133
  • "One liner install" on Linux gives 1.8.2, but latest to download is 1.8.4 "One liner install" on Linux gives 1.8.2, but latest to download is 1.8.4 #7293
  • Parity stops; Issue: all back-references to answered requests have been filled Parity stops; Issue: all back-references to answered requests have been filled #7416
  • Parity PoA authorities are not syncing Parity PoA authorities are not syncing #7441
• check for other known bugs worth fixing (no point in releasing known "bugs")
  • is:issue is:open label:F2-bug
• merge any outstanding PRs (everything "1.9" and not "on-ice")
  • is:pr is:open milestone:1.9 -label:A1-onice

Step 2: Conduct QA:

• hire someone for QA
  • check all JSON consensus tests pass with all valid configurations
  • test invocation with each major CLI option
  • do a full sync on foundation network
  • check sync on ropsten and kovan
  • check if UI is doing what it is supposed to do.

Step 3: Conduct release:

• archive stable branch to something like old-stable-1.7(THIS_TRACK oldstable)
• merge beta branch to stable and bump patch version (THIS_TRACK stable)
• merge master branch to beta and bump patch version (THIS_TRACK beta)
• new tag for specific version (1.8.7 and stable-release) on HEAD of stable.
• new tag for specific version (1.9.0 and beta-release) on HEAD of beta`.
• update all versions in master to 1.10.0 (Cargo.toml, windows installer, macos installer)
  • Cargo.toml (version key)
  • util/version/Cargo.toml (version key)
  • nsis/installer.nsi (VERSIONMINOR and VERSIONBUILD keys)
  • mac/Parity.pkgproj (VERSION key)
  • mac/Parity/Info.plist (CFBundleShortVersionString)
  • cargo update -p parity-version
• prepare any binaries that are manual for both beta and stable
• update public nodes (wallet.parity.io, kovan-wallet.parity.io)

Step 4: Publish release:

• new release in github, add sha256sums
• update homebrew versions and checksums
• update one-line installer
• flush Cloudflare caches
• verify that vanity-service returns proper versions (for stable and beta channels)
• authorize auto-update on operations proxy contract
• update parity-news (and write a blog article)
• update README, docker README, brew README
• update Wiki and JSON-RPC API docs
• push out to social networks
• close this issue & the 1.9 mileston

[debris]

and let's schedule the next release for Jan 8th (7 weeks, because of Christmas)

[5chdn]

And feature freeze Dec 22nd?

[debris]

y

[5chdn]

We need to finalize the rebranding in 1.9

[5chdn]

Remove expanse #7146