Create a release based workflow

When your team uses a release-based workflow, GitHub makes it easy to collaborate on your next big idea.

GitHub releases allow your team to package and provide software to your users based on a specific point in the history of your project. In this course, you'll learn how to create a release-based workflow that is built on the foundations of the GitHub flow.

What you'll learn

This course will answer common questions like:

• How do I choose a branching strategy?
• When should I use topic branches?
• When should I use release branches?
• How do I use the Projects tab on my repository?
• How do I create a release-centered workflow?
• How do I backport changes for a prior release?
• How do I implement a hotfix?

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Build a project board to manage your next release
• Create and commit changes on a release branch
• Create a Git tag and a release on GitHub
• Resolve bugs after a release
• Automate and better document your release changes

What you'll build

• Completed source repository
• Published releases created throughout the course
• Deployed AlienInvasion game which is the source code for this repository.

Prerequisites

We recommend you first complete the following courses:

• Introduction to GitHub to learn how to use pull requests, a feature heavily utilized in this course
• Reviewing pull requests for additional instruction on pull requests

Projects used

This course makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions!

• cykod/AlianInvasion: Demo Game for Mobile HTML5 Game Development

Audience

Developers, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations, managers, teams