Release Process for Staging Environment

Overview

A step-by-step guide to creating a release for the registrar's staging environment.

Steps

1. From the Releases tab, make note of the latest staging # (the staging # for your release should be 1 number higher)
2. Click the "Draft a new release" button, which leads to a form
3. Above the form, click "Choose a tag" and create a new tag using your staging number (must be lowercase; e.g., staging-13)
4. The "Target" should be preset to "main." If it's not, update to "main."
5. Click the "Generate release notes" button above the large input field
6. In the "Release title" field, capitalize the "S" in Staging
7. Double check with the last staging release that there aren't duplicates, delete any that are found. Github did a change and now duplicates are in almost every release if you do a staging release after doing a stable release (and visa versa).
8. Click "Publish release"