Investigate how we could more easily deploy changes across previous versions of govuk-frontend such as v3 or v4.
Why
Depending on our needs, this may be something we need to do and therefore should investigate potential pain points and considerations so that we don't run into roadblocks at the point of release.
Who needs to work on this
Developers
Who needs to review this
Developers
Further detail
We have learnings about this from the crown release and 4.7.0 where we released a version of govuk-frontend whilst 5.0 was in development on main. Some of the takeaways from them were:
The release of 3.14.0 was a challenge due to versions of dependancies on v3 not being compatible with m1 intel processor macs
We were tripped up when release 4.7.0 due to not reading the correct release notes ie: the amended release notes in preparation for 5.0 rather than the v4 accurate release notes. We believe we've solved this in our documentation
Done when
[ ] We've demoed the deploy procedures for v3 and v4, without deploying anything if possible
[ ] We've written up our experiences on both, including next steps
What
Investigate how we could more easily deploy changes across previous versions of govuk-frontend such as v3 or v4.
Why
Depending on our needs, this may be something we need to do and therefore should investigate potential pain points and considerations so that we don't run into roadblocks at the point of release.
Who needs to work on this
Developers
Who needs to review this
Developers
Further detail
We have learnings about this from the crown release and 4.7.0 where we released a version of govuk-frontend whilst 5.0 was in development on main. Some of the takeaways from them were:
Done when