Release Team meeting 2023-07-04

[ekohl]

Present: @ekohl (chair/notes), @lfu, @pcreech, @wbclark

Foreman 3.8

• @ekohl instruct @Griffin-Sullivan on how to build the schedule

Foreman 3.7

• No updates

Foreman 3.6

• No updates

Katello 4.10

• Looking for a release owner

Katello 4.9

• 4.9.0 is now GA: Katello 4.9.0 is now available

Katello 4.8

• 4.8.2 Katello 4.8.2 is available
• 2 issues outstanding to release 4.8.3

Katello 4.7

• 4.7.6 is available: Katello 4.7.6 is now available
• Now officially end of life

Cherry pick workflow

Foreman and Katello have different cherry pick workflows. It would be good to unify. @ekohl will open an RFC about this, but everyone can start to think about what they like and dislike about the current way(s) of doing things.

[ekohl]

I’ve opened the RFC for the release workflows. Right now it’s incomplete and I haven’t gotten around to adding my own suggestions:

Update stable branch workflows

It’s time to revisit how we deal with cherry picks for Foreman & Katello stable branches. The primary aim is to evaluate the current processes and see if we can align both projects on the same workflow while also fixing other issues we see. The opening post will contain the factual statements about the current flow. All proposals should be added in comments. What is cherry picking? A quick overview. Normally development happens in a single branch while there’s also a stable for each X.Y versi…

I’d like to ask people with Katello knowledge to edit and expand it so we at least have a description of the current state.