Release Dotty 0.12.0-RC1 and 0.11.0

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Checklist in English

• On branch0.11.x, set baseVersion to 0.11.0
• Tag 0.11.0. This will publish artefacts to Sonatype and GitHub Release
• Merge branch 0.11.x into master
• Look at the 0.12 Milestone and reschedule what's still open to the next milestone
• Create branch 0.12.x from master
• On 0.12.x, set baseVersion to 0.12.0-RC1
• Tag 0.12.0-RC1. This will publish artefacts to Sonatype and GitHub Release
• On master, set baseVersion to 0.13.0
• Add release notes to the GitHub Release
• Update scalaVersion (and, if applicable, the sbt-dotty version) in the example projects
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project/tree/mill
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty.g8
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-cross.g8
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/homebrew-brew
  • https://github.com/lampepfl/packtest
  • https://github.com/scalacenter/scastie/ 🚫 Scastie uses sbt 0.13
• Publish Blog Post on dotty.epfl.ch (Add blogpost for 0.12.0-RC1 and 0.11.0 #5737)
• Make an announcement thread on https://contributors.scala-lang.org
• Tweet the announcement blog post on https://twitter.com/scala_lang

Checklist in GIT

git checkout 0.11.x

# change val baseVersion = "0.11.0-RC1" to val baseVersion = "0.11.0"

git commit -am 'Release Dotty 0.11.0'

git tag 0.11.0

git push --follow-tags --set-upstream origin 0.11

git checkout master

git merge 0.11.x

git push

# milestones

git checkout -b 0.12.x

# change val baseVersion = "0.11.0" to val baseVersion = "0.12.0-RC1"

git commit -am 'Release Dotty 0.12.0-RC1'

git tag 0.12.0-RC1

git push --follow-tags --set-upstream origin 0.12.x

# draft the release, get contents from:

gren changelog -G --override -D prs --tags=0.11.0-RC1..0.12.0-RC1

git checkout master

#change val baseVersion = "0.12.0-RC1" to val baseVersion = "0.13.0"

git commit -am 'Set baseVersion to 0.13.0'

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Future Work

git checkout 0.11.x

# change val baseVersion = "0.11.0-RC1" to val baseVersion = "0.11.0"

git commit -am 'Release Dotty 0.11.0'

git tag 0.11.0

git push --follow-tags --set-upstream origin 0.11

git checkout master

git merge 0.11.x

git push

# milestones

git checkout -b 0.12.x

# change val baseVersion = "0.11.0" to val baseVersion = "0.12.0-RC1"

git commit -am 'Release Dotty 0.12.0-RC1'

git tag 0.12.0-RC1

git push --follow-tags --set-upstream origin 0.12.x

# draft the release, get contents from:

gren changelog -G --override -D prs --tags=0.11.0-RC1..0.12.0-RC1

git checkout master

#change val baseVersion = "0.12.0-RC1" to val baseVersion = "0.13.0"

git commit -am 'Set baseVersion to 0.13.0'

If we replace the commented lines with sed commands and put everything in variables we are done :-)