Inserts some notes related to testnet deployment

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Kevin Gallagher 2016-10-03 11:06:36 -07:00
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@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Do the normal pull-request, review, testing process for this release PR.
### C1. Ensure depends tree is working
http://ci.leastauthority.com:8010/builders/depends-sources
https://ci.z.cash/builders/depends-sources
### C2. Ensure public parameters work
@ -73,18 +73,26 @@ previous merged PR, then:
$ git push origin zc.v${ZCASH_RELEASE}
## E. deploy testnet
Notify the Zcash DevOps engineer/sysadmin that the release has been tagged. They update some variables in the company's automation code and then run an Ansible playbook, which:
* builds Zcash based on the specified branch
* deploys it as a public service (e.g. betatestnet.z.cash, mainnet.z.cash)
* often the same server can be re-used, and the role idempotently handles upgrades, but if not then they also need to update DNS records
* possible manual steps: blowing away the `testnet3` dir, deleting old parameters, restarting DNS seeder
* finally, verify that nodes can connect to the testnet server.
## F. publish the release announcement (blog, zcash-dev, slack)
## G. celebrate
## missing steps
Zcash still needs:
* deterministic build
* deterministic or reproducible builds
* signatured tags
* signed git tags
* thorough pre-release testing (presumably more thorough than standard PR tests)
* release deployment steps (eg: updating build-depends mirror, deploying testnet, etc...)
* proper zcash-specific versions and names in software and documentation.
* proper Zcash-specific versions and names in software and documentation.