Hotfix Lifecycle

This process is triggered when there are showstopper bugs that need to be deployed to production before the next release. Generally, a Jira ticket will be created that describes the showstopper bug.

1. Create a new hotfix branch

    git checkout master
    git pull --rebase
    git checkout -b release/0.8.16-hotfix1
    git push -u origin release/0.8.16-hotfix1
   

2. Configure the openboxes-release linked respository to point to the new branch so that commits/merges to this branch will be compiled and deployed to the OBNAVSTAGE server automatically.

3. Review the hotfix ticket OBPIH-1234

4. Create a new branch for your hotfix

    git checkout release/0.8.16-hotfix1
    git pull --rebase
    git checkout -b OBPIH-1234
   

5. Make changes to the code

6. Test the changes locally

7. Commit the changes

    git commit -m "OBPIH-1234 Describe the hotfix"
   

8. Push the changes upstream

    git push -u origin OBPIH-1234
   

9. Create a pull request targetting the release/0.8.16-hotfix1 branch

10. Code review
11. Merge code to release/0.8.16-hotfix1
12. Bamboo automatically builds and deploys the new version.
13. Test the changes on OBNAVSTAGE
14. Deploy to production