Foreman 2.3.0-rc2 release process

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Manual updates: 2020-11-17

• 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.

Preparing code: 2020-11-17

• Make patch releases of installer modules that have important changes
  • pulpcore 2.1.0
• Ensure that code in git matches issues fixed in 2.3.0-rc2 in redmine. issues.rb can be used to generate a comparison between the two.

Tagging a release: 2020-11-17

• In foreman 2.3-stable:
  • Make sure test_2_3_stable is green
  • run make -C locale tx-update
  • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.3.0-rc2 && git push upstream 2.3-stable --follow-tags
• In smart-proxy 2.3-stable:
  • Make sure test_proxy_2_3_stable is green
  • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.3.0-rc2 && git push upstream 2.3-stable --follow-tags
• In foreman-selinux 2.3-stable:
  • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.3.0-rc2 && git push upstream 2.3-stable --follow-tags
• In foreman-installer 2.3-stable:
  • Tag the release using tag.sh tag.sh 2.3.0-rc2 && git push upstream 2.3-stable --follow-tags
• Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release to create tarballs
• Update release version similar to here
• Sign Tarballs
  • Download
  • Inspect
  • 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: 2020-11-17

Background documentation

• Update foreman-packaging
  • rpm/2.3
  • deb/2.3 branches
• Trigger release_packages in Jenkins by calling release_packages script.
• Tag foreman-release into foreman-client-2.3-rhel7 and foreman-client-2.3-el8, as this doesn’t happen automatically for those tags. Make sure the build matches the release.
  • koji tag-build foreman-client-2.3-rhel7 foreman-release-2.3.0-1.el7
  • koji tag-build foreman-client-2.3-el8 foreman-release-2.3.0-1.el8
• Sign the RPMs in the release
  • Download
  • Sign
  • Upload RPM signatures
  • Upload RPMs
• Sign RPMs for client repos (call scripts with PROJECT=client)
  • Download
  • Sign
  • Upload RPM signatures
  • Upload RPMs
• Kick off the release pipeline by calling release_pipeline
• Kick off the client pipeline by calling PROJECT=client release_pipeline
• Kick off the plugins pipeline by calling plugins_pipeline

After the packages have been released

• Announce the release on Discourse
• Update the topic in #theforeman channel on Freenode
• Share the release announcement on twitter