# 2021-07-24 0.13 Release Post Mortem

###### tags: `weekly-meeting`

## Release Party

### What went well

- 275+ people
- Fun release party map
- Different locations
- Reddit posts

### What could be improved

- More coordinated activities
- (discuss mod TPing internally)
- Spectate mode?
- Less admin-sided stream?
- Coordinated trailer prep
- Shared editing file?
- More clip coordination
- Getting footage
- Put stuff in a shared Google Drive sooner
- Listing what we want to see in the trailer
- Making sure contributors are the ones to record their changes
- Only code developers get credit
- Making a form for the next release party
- Tracking issue for what needs to be done for a release party

#### Stuff that needs to be done for release

*Starts 3 weeks before release*

- Pick release date
- Post to devs about code freeze
- Change version of everything
- Send out pings to ping/dev/media/contributors
- Send out ping to everyone
- Posts on Reddit
- Post on Twitter
- Make trailer
- Create new (worldgen) map for release party
- Add custom map to terrain
- Move terrain to server
- Restart server with terrain
- Advertise stream
- Code freeze
- Start custom build for version release
- Update change log
- Put out release blog post

## Next week leads

Lead: xmac
Call for Review!: sam
Issues (limit 7): isse
Minutes: Christof