Release team working process

This is the way the release team is supposed to work.

Overview

The release team process consists of the following activities:

• Opening
• Testing
• Reviews
• Release assembly

Opening

This are the first things that the team should do after the official sprint opening:

• Create a branch from the trunk. The name should be further determined(perhaps something like release01 or release01-pre-alpha-2)
• Create a wiki page for the release. This will be ITERATION_<it_number>/Release
• Select tasks for testing. Sort them by their testability and importance
• Merge back valuable changes done on the previous release branch into the trunk

Testing

This refers to the last phase of a task's revision lifecycle.

It includes th following:

• Writing user documentation for each