Activity - 2.5.3

[HanaGemela]

Reason

• Release needed for Add a config option to send notifications ASAP #833
• Skip disabled users and do not break the cronjob on the first unsent email #842

QA

• Generate Changelog
• Create QA Milestone and set the description to $version
• Move items from development to qa
• Create release branch with the format "release-$version"
• Create "$version Testplan" 2.5.3 Test plan #839

Documentation

• Changes in the docs needed? If so create issue in owncloud/docs. Activity app - Add a config option to send notifications ASAP docs#2388

Marketing

• Ping @owncloud/marketing
• Ping pmaier to check info.xml description and screenshot

Build

All actions to be done on the release branch from here:

• Bump version in info.xml (no version suffix)
• Check php version dependency in info.xml
• Check minimum ownCloud version dependency in info.xml
• Change CHANGELOG.md 'Unreleased' to '$version' (today's date)

Beta/RC

• Create github tag for v${version}RC1 on release branch
• Build and sign RC tarball from github tag v${version}RC1 (see
  handbook for how to build)
• Upload as Github release using changelog entries
• Test and document in testplan => 2.5.3 Test plan #839 @davitol

Final

• Check that no documentation issues are pending Activity app - Add a config option to send notifications ASAP docs#2388
• Rename last RC tarball to final
• Create github tag for final v${version} on release branch
• Upload as Github release using changelog entries

Publishing

• Upload tarball to marketplace (see handbook for details)
• Publish tarball for customers (see handbook for details) - https://customer.owncloud.com and https://portal.owncloud.com
• Send mail to release-coordination with link to this ticket and to the changelog
• Copy email to rocket chat #updates channel

Post-release

• Rename QA milestone to $version
• Add a new 'Unreleased' section in CHANGELOG.md
• Create PR to merge changes back to the master branch with
  description "Closes #XYZ" with the release ticket number
• Close the milestone
• Ensure release template is up to date

[HanaGemela]

@davitol RC1 available in https://github.com/owncloud/activity/releases/tag/v2.5.3RC1

[HanaGemela]

Put back to dev to fix also Reason #842

[HanaGemela]

P1 until RC2 deployed to portal

[HanaGemela]

@davitol Please smoke test https://github.com/owncloud/activity/releases/tag/v2.5.3RC2 now

[davitol]

@davitol Please smoke test https://github.com/owncloud/activity/releases/tag/v2.5.3RC2 now

Tested and LGTM.

About Documentation ticket owncloud/docs#2388 occ system:cron

is the command that allows to send notifications ASAP. But It is not a new command and also hasn't the same purpose than occ activity:send-emails that flushes the entire queue

[HanaGemela]

I've reopened the documentation issue

[HanaGemela]

RC2 can be deployed now. Lowering the priority for the rest of the release process

[HanaGemela]

Waiting for documentation before publishing (cc @settermjd)