release-checklist.md

Release checklist for quantmod

• Create GitHub Milestone

  • Associate all included issues with milestone
  • Ensure all included issues are closed
  • Roll open issues to next milestone

• Check unit tests, code coverage, and benchmarks

• Build and test with R-devel and current release

  • Run via r-hub for Linux, Windows, Solaris
  • Run via win-builder

• Run reverse-dependency checks

  • Note failures that are not related to package, for example:
    • Required vignette builder is not installed
    • Unit tests do not conditionally use other packages
  • Notify dependent maintainers of API changes affecting their package

• Update NEWS

  • Include user-facing changes, with GitHub issue number
  • Include GitHub username for users who create issues and/or PRs

• Ensure all CRAN checks are addressed

• Upload to CRAN

  • Add any new comments to the CRAN comments file

• Post "on CRAN now"

  • Tag version and create release
  • Close milestone
  • Announce:
    • Blog post, tweet, R-announce, etc