Foreman 2.0.0-rc3 release process

Development Releases
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Manual updates

  • Update manual if applicable for any additional installation steps
  • Update release notes section in the manual:
    • Release notes: bullet point list by category of all changes, include link to bug numbers. You can auto-generate changes using the release notes script.
    • CLI release notes are taken from the hammer-cli and hammer-cli-foreman changelogs
    • Link to installer changelogs and note versions being used
    • 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
  • Update installer options section using the get-params script (Note: this step can only be done after packages are released)
  • Generate the apipie doc and place it in the api/2.0 directory

Preparing code

  • Make patch releases of installer modules that have important changes
    • Branch to MAJ.MIN-stable if recent changes to the module aren’t 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
  • Ensure that code in git matches issues fixed in 2.0.0-rc3 in redmine. issues.rb can be used to generate a comparison between the two.

Tagging a release

  • In foreman 2.0-stable:
    • Make sure test_2_0_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
    • update template snapshots with rake snapshots:generate RAILS_ENV=test and verify changes are expected
    • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.0.0-rc3
    • Push: git push upstream 2.0-stable --follow-tags
  • In smart-proxy 2.0-stable:
    • Make sure test_proxy_2_0_stable is green
    • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.0.0-rc3
    • Push: git push upstream 2.0-stable --follow-tags
  • In foreman-selinux 2.0-stable:
    • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.0.0-rc3
    • Push: git push upstream 2.0-stable --follow-tags
  • In foreman-installer 2.0-stable:
    • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.0.0-rc3
    • Push: git push upstream 2.0-stable --follow-tags
  • Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release to create tarballs
  • Update release version similar to here
  • Sign Tarballs

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

Background documentation