Writing release notes
- Update manual if applicable for any additional installation steps
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Draft release notes in markdown (example), with these sections (and do not use personal pronouns):
- Headline features: half a dozen important features with a few sentences description each
- Upgrade notes: all important notices that users must be aware of before upgrading
- Release notes: bullet point list by category of most changes, excluding bug fixes for issues introduced during the release cycle, include link to bug numbers. You can auto-generate changes using the āchangelogā command in tool_belt
- CLI release notes are taken from the hammer-cli and hammer-cli-foreman changelogs
- Link to installer changelogs and note versions being used
- Get the apipie doc and place it in api/1.19
Preparing code
- Request Hammer CLI releases from maintainers if desired
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Make patch releases of installer modules that have important changes
- Branch to MAJ.MIN-stable if recent changes to the module arenāt suitable for patch (x.y.z) release
- Compare tagged packages in nightly vs. release koji tag and re-tag any updated dependencies that are required
- Remove/change release field for any open Redmine tickets assigned to the release still (next minor, unset it or reject)
- List all issues targeted at the release, order by Closed date ascending and use git cherry-pick -x to cherry pick from develop to 1.19.0-RC3-stable branch
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Clone tool_belt and run:
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./tools.rb setup-environment configs/foreman/1.19.yaml
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./tools.rb cherry-picks --version 1.19.0-RC3 configs/foreman/1.19.yaml
- Verify tickets in the cherry_picks_1.19.0-RC3 file are accounted for or additional cherry pick them
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Tagging a release
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In foreman 1.19-stable:
- Make sure test_1_19_stable is green
- run make -C locale tx-update (if Transifex has not switched to the next major release yet, usually after .2)
- run script/sync_templates.sh
- change VERSION to 1.19.0-RC3
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Run
extras/changelog
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Commit:
git commit -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3"
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Tag:
git tag -s -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3" 1.19.0-RC3
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Push:
git push --follow-tags
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In smart-proxy 1.19-stable:
- Make sure test_proxy_1_19_stable is green
- change VERSION to 1.19.0-RC3
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Run
extra/changelog
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Commit:
git commit -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3"
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Tag:
git tag -s -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3" 1.19.0-RC3
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Push:
git push --follow-tags
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In foreman-selinux 1.19-stable:
- change VERSION to 1.19.0-RC3
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Run
extras/changelog
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Commit:
git commit -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3"
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Tag:
git tag -s -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3" 1.19.0-RC3
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Push:
git push --follow-tags
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In foreman-installer 1.19-stable:
- change VERSION to 1.19.0-RC3
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Commit:
git commit -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3"
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Tag:
git tag -s -m "Release 1.19.0-RC3" 1.19.0-RC3
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Push:
git push --follow-tags
- Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release to create tarballs
- Verify tarballs are present on downloads.theforeman.org
- Download, sign and upload detached signatures
Note: If for some reason there was an issue with the tarballs that required uploading new tarballs, CDN cache should be invalidated so that the builders use the updated tarballs.
Packaging a release
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In foreman-packaging rpm/1.19 branch, change foreman.spec, foreman-proxy.spec, foreman-selinux.spec, foreman-installer.spec:
- Set version to 1.19.0
- Set alphatag RC3
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In each package dir, remove the old tarball, run
spectool -g *.spec
andgit annex add *.tar.bz2
- Commit with message āRelease 1.19.0-RC3ā
- Submit a pull request
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Update changelog files for debs:
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scripts/changelog.rb -v 1.19.0~rc3-1 -m "1.19.0-RC3 released" debian/*/*/changelog
- Submit a pull request
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- Trigger next step of release pipeline: release_packages
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Use RPM_Packaging to sign RPMs
- Download RPMs
- Sign RPMs
- Upload signatures
- Upload RPMs
- Sign āextraā RPMs
- Trigger release_mash
- Trigger release_test if mashing didnāt
- Trigger release_push_deb and release_push_rpm if testing didnāt