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Roles
- Release Owner: @ColeHiggins2
- Release Engineer: @pcreech
Preparing code: 2024-11-05
Release Owner
- 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 3.13.0-rc1 in redmine. issues can be used to generate a comparison between the two.
- Check for open pull requests in Foreman, smart-proxy, foreman-installer and foreman-selinux
Tagging a release: 2024-11-05
Release Owner
- Make sure test_3_13_stable and smart-proxy-3.13-stable-test are green using verify_green_jobs
- Run
make -C locale tx-update
in foreman 3.13-stable - Tag the projects
- Create tags using tag_project
- Push tags using tag_push
- Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release using release_tarballs to create tarballs
Release Engineer
- Sign Tarballs
- download_tarballs
- inspect_tarballs
- Sign and upload detached signatures using 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: 2024-11-05
Release Engineer
- Update foreman-packaging branches
- rpm/3.13 using bump_rpm_packaging
- deb/3.13 using bump_deb_packaging
- Wait for packages to be built using wait_packaging (checks rpm/3.13 and deb/3.13). This takes a while so you can already start on the manual updates.
- Check for outstanding PRs against 3.13 packaging, and merge if possible:
- Sign the RPMs in the release
- 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
Manual updates: 2024-11-05
Release Owner
- Update manual if applicable for any additional installation steps
- Update the website’s release notes section in the manual
- Using the release notes script:
./scripts/release_notes.rb foreman 3.13.0
- Append CLI release notes taken from the hammer-cli and hammer-cli-foreman changelogs, in theforeman.org.
- Headline features: half a dozen important features with a few sentences description each
- Upgrade warnings: all important notices that users must be aware of before upgrading
- Deprecations: anything that will be removed in a future release
- Submit this as a PR
- Using the release notes script:
- Update docs.theforeman.org
- Using redmine_release_notes script (see README as well):
./guides/doc-Release_Notes/redmine_release_notes foreman 3.13.0 > ./guides/doc-Release_Notes/topics/foreman-3.13.0.adoc
- Append CLI release notes taken from the hammer-cli and hammer-cli-foreman changelogs to
foreman-3.13.0.adoc
. - Add
topics/foreman-3.13.0.adoc
toguides/doc-Release_Notes/master.adoc
:sed -i '/x.y.z releases here/a include::topics/foreman-3.13.0.adoc[leveloffset=+1]' guides/doc-Release_Notes/master.adoc
- Make sure foreman-contributors.adoc is updated
- Make sure headline features, upgrade warnings and deprecations are in sync with the website
- Submit this as a PR
- Using redmine_release_notes script (see README as well):
- Generate the apipie docs and raise pull request in apidocs repository
After the packages have been released
Release Owner
- Update theforeman.org
- Update
_config.yml
- Add the 3.13 in
foreman_versions
list
- Add the 3.13 in
- Update
web/content/index.adoc
andweb/content/js/versions.js
to add 3.13 as a release candidate
- Update
- Add 3.13 to the navigation in docs.theforeman.org master
cp web/releases/nightly.adoc web/releases/3.13.adoc
and modify as neededcp web/releases/nightly.json web/releases/3.13.json
and modify as needed
- Create a feedback post on Discourse (like Foreman 3.8 release candidate feedback)
- Announce the release on Discourse using release_announcement
- Update the topic in #theforeman channel on Matrix
- Share the release announcement on Twitter
- Release pipeline will trigger foreman-plugins-3.13-deb-test-pipeline and foreman-plugins-3.13-rpm-test-pipeline. These don’t block releases but can be used to understand known issues around plugin compatibility with Foreman 3.13.