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Create a release based workflow

The GitHub Training Team Learn and practice a release-based workflow and explore branching strategies. Start free course Join 2758 others! social preview

When your team uses a release-based workflow, GitHub makes it easy to collaborate on your next big idea. GitHub releases allow your team to package and provide software to your users based on a specific point in the history of your project. In this course, you'll learn how to create a release-based workflow that is built on the foundations of the GitHub flow.

What you'll learn

This course will answer common questions like: ●How do I choose a branching strategy? ●When should I use topic branches? ●When should I use release branches? ●How do I use the Projects tab on my repository? ●How do I create a release-centered workflow? ●How do I backport changes for a prior release? ●How do I implement a hotfix? After completing this course, you'll be able to: ●Build a project board to manage your next release ●Create and commit changes on a release branch ●Create a Git tag and a release on GitHub ●Resolve bugs after a release ●Automate and better document your release changes

What you'll build

●Completed source repository ●Published releases created throughout the course ●Deployed AlienInvasion game which is the source code for this repository.

Prerequisites

We recommend you first complete the following courses: ●Introduction to GitHub to learn how to use pull requests, a feature heavily utilized in this course ●Reviewing pull requests for additional instruction on pull requests

Projects used

This course makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions! ●cykod/AlianInvasion: Demo Game for Mobile HTML5 Game Development

Audience

Developers, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations, managers, teams

Steps to complete this course 14

Create a beta release

Create a beta release, or a pre-release, from the existing codebase.

Create a project board

Prepare for the next release using GitHub Projects.

Triage issues in a project

Add an issue to a project column.

Add a new feature on the release branch

Update the README.md and open a pull request.

Merge the new feature to the release branch

Merge the pull request to update the release branch.

Open a release pull request

Create a pull request to bring the new feature into master.

Approve changes for the next release

Approve pull request changes for an upcoming release.

Install and configure a GitHub app

Use the Release Drafter GitHub app to help with release notes.

Merge the config for Release Drafter

Merge the configuration file for Release Drafter to set a template for the release.

Merge the release branch

Merge the release branch into master.

Finalize the release

Complete the release by publishing the drafted release.

Approve a hotfix pull request

Submit a hotfix to a previous release.

Approve the backport pull request

Backport the patch commits to the release branch.

Create release v1.0.1

Create a patch release based on the most recent commit on the release branch.

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78 minutes

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Latest release

September 9, 2020

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