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From: Liana Husikyan <liana@ethdev.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:03:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update release-process.md

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-# Release process
-This document details steps for publishing packages and tag the code base accordingly:
-
-
-1) Publish (using lerna) all the modules that depends on one of the newly published module
-
-- checkout a new branch from master
-- npm run publish (that command use lerna)
-- commit
-
-2) Increment the root (repository scoped) package.json
-
-- increment root package.json version
-- commit
-- merge the branch
-
-3) Create a tag (using the package.json version)
-
-- checkout latest origin/master
-- npm run tag
-- previousVersion=[previous_version] npm run updateChangelog 
-- create a new release out of the changes of CHANGELOG.md
-
-4) Commit new updated CHANGELOG.md
-
-
+# Release process 
+
+This document includes:
+ - how to update remix.ethereum.org.
+ - how to update remix-alpha.ethereum.org.
+ - how to release remix IDE.
+
+## Remix libs release
+ - TODO
+
+## Remix IDE release
+
+ - git fetch origin master
+ - git checkout origin/master
+ - git checkout -b bumpVersion
+ - update package.json version
+ - remove package-lock.json version and generate a new one with `npm install`
+ - merge PR
+ - git fetch origin master
+ - git checkout origin/master
+ - git tag v(version-number)
+ - git push --tags
+ - github-changes -o ethereum -r remix-ide -a --only-pulls --use-commit-body --only-merges --between-tags previous_version...next_version
+ - publish a release in github using the changelog
+ - after remix_live is updated, drop the zip (from https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live/) to the release.
+
+## Remix-ide beta release
+ - git fetch origin master
+ - git checkout origin/master
+ - git checkout -b bumpVersion
+ - update package.json version to the new version "vx.x.x-beta.1"
+ - remove package-lock/json version and generate a new one with `npm install`
+ - merge PR
+ - git fetch origin master
+ - git checkout origin/master
+ - git tag v(version-number) (with "vx.x.x-beta.1")
+ - git push --tags
+ - github-changes -o ethereum -r remix-ide -a --only-pulls --use-commit-body --only-merges --between-tags previous_version...next_version
+ - publish a beta release in github using the changelog
+ - drop zip file to the beta release (from https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live-alpha)
+ 
+## remix.ethereum.org update
+
+This is not strictly speaking a release. Updating the remix site is done through the Travis build:
+
+ - git co -b remix_live origin/remix_live
+ - git reset --hard -master-commit-hash-
+ - git push -f origin remix_live
+
+ CircleCI will build automaticaly and remix.ethereum.org will be updated
+
+## remix-alpha.ethereum.org update
+
+remix-alpha.ethereum.org is automaticaly updated every time commits are pushed to master
+