6. Release Branch

Date	Phase
February 15^th	Release

It is now time to begin testing v1.1 of the app and submit it for the magazine's review

🏃 Activities

Maintainers

Bring your local develop branch up to date with the source repository:

$ git checkout develop

$ git pull

Create a new branch off of develop named release-1.1:

$ git checkout -b release-1.1

Bump the version number to 1.1:

major=1
minor=1
patch=0

Finally, stage and commit the change:

$ git add app/VERSION

$ git commit -m "Bump version to 1.1"

Maintainers

Choose a maintainer to publish the release branch to the source repository:

$ git push -u origin HEAD

Next we will walk through the process of fixing bugs in the release branch.