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Staging Checklist

Predeploy Activities

Scope and Quality Assurance

• All PRs for this release have been reviewed and merged (open PRs for review).
• All PRs for this release have been validated on dev.
• 508 Accessibility review request has been filed here
• Update code coverage water level for each repo [here](If we want to track our code coverage release-release)
• Discussed any dependencies between data migration and code deployments (order, any outages, etc)
  • Develop plan for any downtime

Documentation

• Write simplified release notes for FEC to review
• Update repo documentation
• FEC
• fec-style
• fec-cms
• openFEC
• openFEC-web-app
• fec-eregs

Communication

• Any communication that is needed from 18F FEC has been made

Deployment

• Run migrations, code deployments as if this was a production deployment

Code

• Release branches
• fec-cms
• openFEC
• openFEC-web-app
• fec-eregs
• Dependency Versions
• fec-style has been updated and published to npm
• eregs dependencies have been validated

Data Migrations

• SQL migrations
• Legal data has been synced to stage
• Wagtail migrations

Production Checklist

Versions / Tags to be Deployed / Picked up

This section is more for posterity.

1. openFEC : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A
2. openFEC-web-app : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A
3. fec-cms : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A
4. fec-style : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A
5. fec-eregs : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

Communication

• If there is projected downtime, we have discussed the plan
• Communicate release FEC is about to start
• Communicate release has been completed to FEC

Additional Scope and Quality Assurance Pre Deploy

• FEC has signed off on deploying to prod
• 18F PMs have signed off on deploying to prod
• All PRs direct to the release branch (label: Before Release) have been merged
• Those Fixes have been validated on staging

Deployment

Order of Deployment

Order of Migrations

Change order if necessary

• Data migrations
  • Run update scripts in standalone app if necessary
    • Allocate additional resources for the database to help with the processing before starting if need be.
• Content migrations
• Legal data has been sync'd to prod

Feature Flags

• Legal feature flags have been enabled

Order of Deployment of Assets

Change order if necessary

• Update fec-style and publish to npm as necessary
• openFEC
  • Make sure local copies of master, develop, and release/[release name] branches are up-to-date.
  • Checkout the release/[release name] branch.
  • Run git flow release finish [release name]
  • Run git push --follow-tags
• fec-cms
  • Make sure local copies of master, develop, and release/[release name] branches are up-to-date.
  • Checkout the release/[release name] branch.
  • Run git flow release finish [release name]
  • Run git push --follow-tags
• openFEC-web-app
  • Make sure local copies of master, develop, and release/[release name] branches are up-to-date.
  • Checkout the release/[release name] branch.
  • Run git flow release finish [release name]
  • Run git push --follow-tags
  • Confirm that the new web app is up and running successfully.
• fec-eregs

Post Deployment

• Test the site
  • New features tested in prod
  • Critical sanity tested in prod
• GitHub issues and PRs have been closed
• GitHub milestones have been marked as complete