Release checklist

• Create release branch in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples
  • Uplift new examples and modifications in latest stable branch into master
  • Make any modifications necessary for compatibility with new DS version
  • Branch from master into new release branch (e.g. r0.8 for DS v0.8.x, or r1.0 for DS v1.0.x)
• Create release branch in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
  • Branch from master into new release branch (e.g. r0.8 for DS v0.8.x, or r1.0 for DS v1.0.x)
  • Push new branch with no extra commits to GitHub
  • Change .taskcluster.yml and taskcluster/github-events.cyml to mention the new branch instead of master
  • Change EXAMPLES_CHECKOUT_TARGET in taskcluster/win-opt-base.tyml and examples-base.tyml to checkout the new release branch instead of master
  • Make a PR with above changes and make sure CI works
  • Merge PR into new release branches
  • Make a new alpha tag to test tag CI
• Update release notes in draft release
• Update hyperparameters in draft release
• Update contributor list in draft release
• Package and upload checkpoint, models, and audio examples
  • Remember to include alphabet.txt in checkpoint package, as it's no longer needed for the models
  • If packaging from a best_dev checkpoint, cp best_dev_checkpoint checkpoint to avoid problems when loading the checkpoint from code that doesn't handle the separate checkpoint/best_dev_checkpoint logic
• Upload models somewhere else (e.g. personal fork release) and link prod model tests and examples tests to new URLs
• Update all references to previous release in documentation
• Bump VERSION file to new version, remove note from README.rst about "This documentation applies to the master branch of DeepSpeech only. [...]".
• Merge PR bumping VERSION file, then tag new version on the merge commit
• Push the tag
• Publish the draft release pointing to the existing tag
• Monitor task group created from the tag to make sure everything is built and published
• Manually check package repositories after publish is complete
  • https://pypi.org/project/deepspeech/
  • https://pypi.org/project/deepspeech-tflite/
  • https://pypi.org/project/deepspeech-gpu/
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepspeech
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepspeech-tflite
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepspeech-gpu
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DeepSpeech
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DeepSpeech-TFLite
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DeepSpeech-GPU
• Make the new version the default on https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/
• Make the new version the default on https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples
• Add the notice about "This documentation applies to the master branch of DeepSpeech only. [...]" to README.rst again