Branching model

Regular releases

The DefectDojo team aims to release at least once a month, on the last Tuesday. Bugfix or security releases can come at any time.

In doubt, GitHub Actions are the source of truth. The releases are semi-automated right now, with a DefectDojo maintainer proceeding with each major step in the release. The steps for a regular release are:

1. Create the release branch from dev and prepare a PR against master (details) –> A maintainer verifies and manually merges the PR
2. Tag, issue draft release and docker build+push (details) –> A maintainer massages the release-drafter notes and publishes the release
3. A PR to merge master back to dev is created to re-align the branches (details)

Security releases

PRs that relate to security issues are done through security advisories which provide a way to work privately on code without prematurely disclosing vulnerabilities.

Release and hotfix model

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