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1. In Jira, go to the Releases Page and add a new release name with start date and description.
2. Move any issues that have been resolved, or that are planned to be resolved, to this release. The easiest way to do this is to filter down to the results you want and bulk edit them to change the 'Fix Version/s' field to match the release name. Try this filter - Done in current sprint, no fixversion
3. Create a new page using the JIRA Report Blueprint by clicking the white elipsis in the page header. Go to "New release" and fill out the details for this release. The JIRA report on that page defaults to beta-002 so that needs to change.

4. Add the link to Slack's #general channel and mention @channel so all users are notified, e.g. 

   Code Block
   @channel new release https://hee-tis.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TISDEV/beta-001

Prep a release dev side

Image Added

title Release Process

Developer->Github: Push to master
Github->Jenkins: Webhook
Jenkins->Jenkins: Build docker image with version
Jenkins->Github: Tag with version
Jenkins->Docker Registry: Push versioned image
Jenkins->Docker Registry: Push latest image
Jenkins->Ansible: Deploy latest image
note left of Ansible: latest deployed to dev
Ansible->Platform: Copy docker-compose templates
Ansible->Platform: Run docker-compose
Jenkins->CI Tests: Run tests

For maven projects: 

The project should already have the maven-release-plugin present, if it does not, here is how to add it: 

In the pom.xml add in the plugin along with the proper scm link (make sure that the scm link matches the project's github repo). The example below is from revalidation: 

<scm>
 <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:Health-Education-England/TIS-REVALIDATION.git</developerConnection>
 <tag>HEAD</tag>
</scm>

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<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.5.2</version>
 <dependencies>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
 <version>1.9.4</version>
 </dependency>
 </dependencies>
</plugin>

You should start with common projects that are required for others to compile (such as TIS-SHARED-MODULES). 

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