How can I create a checklist for releases?

Question

Hi,

I am looking for a simple way to have a checklist on Releases? There are a lot of tasks which have to be done prior to a release such as "write and publish release notes", "communicate downtime with affected teams", "check dependencies with other systems"... I already found different add-ons for checklists within tasks, but nothing for releases. Do you have any idea?

Thanks,

Sebastian

Yaniv Hoobian Schmal · Answer

Hi,

can this add-on create the checklist form all issues in the version?

by gathering the checklist form each issue?

Alina Kachan_Railsware_ · Answer

Hi @Sebastian Sartor,

In my team, we are managing Releases by means of Smart Checklist add-on, which gives the possibility to add simple instruction per each release task to simplify things. Minimalistic UI and markdown syntax support, make the tool a helping hand in the process.

Here is a Release Checklist example the way we like it. Probably, it'll be a convenient way to go for you too :)

Sebastian Brudziński · Answer

Hello @Sebastian Sartor

you haven't specified whether you are using Jira Cloud or Jira Server.  As you mentioned, you have already found some apps  that introduce checklists in Jira issue view. One of them has been developed by us - Multiple Checklists for Jira

I can quickly share how using checklists to track releases work in our case. We maintain a checklist template that is named "Release checklist". It contains entries such as "Update documentation", "Bump versions", "Perform regression testing". We also have a ticket created for each release. The release tickets have the "Release checklist" added from a saved template. As we work on releasing, the entries are checked by people responsible for them. Once all items are checked it means we are ready for release.

Hopefully this is useful.

Best,
Sebastian.