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Staging Checklist

Predeploy Activities

Scope and Quality Assurance

• All PRs for this release have been reviewed and merged.
• 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
• Discussed any dependencies between data migration and code deployments (order, any outages, etc)

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

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

openFEC : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

openFEC-web-app : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

fec-cms : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

fec-style : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

fec-eregs : Enter version/tag/branch or N/A

-- Should we have a single tag across assets to tie to what was deployed?

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

• All PRs direct to the release branch (label: Before Release) have been merged
• Those Fixes have been validated on staging
• Sanity checks passed after deployment

Deployment

Order of Deployment

Order of Migrations

Change order if necessary

• Data migrations
• Content migrations
• Legal data has been sync'd to prod

Order of Deployment of Assets

Change order if necessary

• fec-style
• openFEC
• fec-cms
• openFEC-web-app
• fec-eregs

Feature Flags

• Legal feature flags have been enabled

Post Deployment

• Release merged back to Develop