Foreman 1.21 branching process

[tbrisker]

Near-end of development phase

• Announce upcoming branching to discourse development category a month before
• Change $latest and $next parameters on web class to point to the new version numbers
  • https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-infra/pull/900
• Refresh unattended templates
  • Sync the community-templates to Foreman core, by running script/sync_templates.sh
    • https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6401/files
  • Create a -stable branch in community-templates
• Add new languages that are at a reasonable completion on Transifex to develop
• Generate a release GPG key using GPG_Keys
• publish to keyserver
• security.md on the website, add public key fingerprint to static/keys
• create releases/1.21/RPM-GPG-KEY-foreman on yum.theforeman.org
• Ask plugin authors to start extracting i18n strings and pushing the changes into develop/master git branches so Transiflex can pick it up

Package build systems

• Clone tags and create build targets in Koji
• Create mash scripts and configuration on Koji
• Add new plugin tags to Koji plugins mash script (foreman-mash-split-plugins.py), remove old ones (keep three)
• Add version 1.21 to jobs in axes and/or combination filters, remove old ones (keep three)
• Clone Debian nightly repos to 1.21 using copy/freight instructions
• Edit foreman-packaging’s PR template to add 1.21 and remove the old release

Main code repos

• Make releases of installer modules
  • Tier 0 (no dependencies)
    • certs
    • dhcp
    • dns
    • foreman
    • git
    • puppet
    • qpid
    • tftp
  • Tier 1 (Dependencies on Tier 0)
    • candlepin
    • foreman_proxy
    • pulp
  • Tier 2 (Dependencies on Tier 1)
    • foreman_proxy_content
    • katello
• Update locales in foreman develop: make -C locale tx-update
• Create 1.21-stable branches
  • foreman
  • foreman-installer
  • foreman-selinux
  • smart-proxy
• Branch foreman-packaging
  • RPMs
  • debs
• Bump versions to 1.22-develop
  echo 1.22-develop > VERSION
  • foreman
    Also change package.json version field to 1.22.0
  • foreman-installer
  • foreman-selinux
  • smart-proxy

Website

• Copy website manual content from nightly to 1.21
  • https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/pull/1276

Other systems

• Create release schedule page for next version (1.22) linked from Development_Resources
• Create Redmine versions
  • Add next version number (1.22)
    • foreman
    • foreman-installer
    • foreman-selinux
    • smart-proxy
  • Add first patch release (1.21.1)
    • foreman
    • foreman-installer
    • foreman-selinux
    • smart-proxy
• Update foreman-dev with translations status to encourage 100% translations before release
• Announce string freeze date on discourse and send announcement via https://www.transifex.com/foreman/foreman/announcements/
• Create test_1_21_stable.yaml and test_proxy_1_21_stable.yaml for JJB in foreman-infra, remove the oldest version to keep last 3
  • https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-infra/pull/909
• Ensure current Foreman deprecations for the next release are removed in develop
  • https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/6403
• Add 1.21 to Forklift versions config
  • https://github.com/theforeman/forklift/pull/902

[ekohl]

Status update before I leave for the weekend. Due to fixing nightly packages I had very little time left for the installer.

For puppet-foreman PR 707 must be merged, then I can prepare the release. For puppet-puppet PR 669 has been opened. When those two modules are released, tier 0 is done. Tier 1 and 2 are probably not that much work after that. Another big blocker is #25844 which I still need to finish. Part of it is catching up on work from a few prior releases.