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Roles
Manual updates: 2020-06-24
Release Engineer
- 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: 2020-06-24
Installer Maintainer
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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 aren’t suitable for patch (x.y.z) release
Release Owner
- Add a new Redmine version for the next minor, unless the series is EOL. Be sure the version is set to sharing with subprojects.
- Remove/change target version field for any open Redmine tickets assigned to the release still (next minor, unset it or reject)
- Ensure that code in git matches issues fixed in 2.5.1 in redmine. issues.rb can be used to generate a comparison between the two.
- Change Redmine version 2.5.1 state to Closed
Tagging a release: 2020-06-24
Release Owner
- In foreman 2.5-stable:
- Make sure test_2_5_stable is green
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.5.1 && git push upstream 2.5-stable --follow-tags
- In smart-proxy 2.5-stable:
- Make sure test_proxy_2_5_stable is green
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.5.1 && git push upstream 2.5-stable --follow-tags
- In foreman-selinux 2.5-stable:
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.5.1 && git push upstream 2.5-stable --follow-tags
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Tag the release using tag.sh
- In foreman-installer 2.5-stable:
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.5.1 && git push upstream 2.5-stable --follow-tags
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Tag the release using tag.sh
- Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release to create tarballs
Release Engineer
- 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: 2020-06-24
Release Engineer
- Update foreman-packaging
- Trigger release_packages in Jenkins by calling release_packages script.
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Tag
foreman-releaseintoforeman-client-2.5-rhel7andforeman-client-2.5-el8, as this doesn’t happen automatically for those tags.-
koji tag-build foreman-client-2.5-rhel7 foreman-release-2.5.1-1.el7 -
koji tag-build foreman-client-2.5-el8 foreman-release-2.5.1-1.el8
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- Check for outstanding PRs against 2.5 packaging, and merge if possible:
- Sign the RPMs in the release
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Sign RPMs for client repos (call scripts with
PROJECT=client) -
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
Release Owner
- Update the versions on the website in version and latest news
- Announce the release on Discourse
- Update the topic in #theforeman channel on Freenode
- Share the release announcement on twitter
- Release pipeline will trigger foreman-plugins-2.5-deb-test-pipeline and foreman-plugins-2.5-rpm-test-pipeline. These don’t block releases but can be used to understand known issues around plugin compatibility with Foreman 2.5.