Release team meeting 2023-08-23

Development Releases
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This is only the agenda

General

Foreman 3.8

Foreman 3.7

  • No updates

Foreman 3.6

Katello 4.10

Katello 4.9

Katello 4.8

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Present: @ekohl (chair/notes), @iballou, @pcreech, @damoore

General

  • Now splitting the post in an agenda (which will stay up) and a separate post for the notes. This allows posting the agenda early and still notify people about the final notes.
  • New Discourse group @releases which is set to watch Releases - TheForeman and automatically gave trust level 3.
  • CentOS CI issues with provisioning new nodes, which affects our ability to run pipelines and thus release.

Foreman 3.8

Foreman 3.7

  • No updates

Foreman 3.6

@Griffin-Sullivan asked about how to get contributors. https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/blob/gh-pages/scripts/release_notes.rb should be used and that should be added to our release instructions.

There was also some confusion about keeping the headline features, upgrade warnings and deprecations in sync. This is about keeping docs.theforeman.org and theforeman.org in sync. So Foreman 3.7 and Katello 4.9 Release Notes and Foreman :: Manual should have the same information for end users. Making docs.theforeman.org the primary documentation source is the RFC about removing the need to duplicate that. It may take a while to get there.

Katello 4.10

Katello 4.9

  • 4.9.2 needs to happen. @wbclark will work on that.

Katello 4.8

  • 4.8.5 is listed in Redmine, but it’s unlikely to be released given where Katello 4.10 is now. Only if something critical shows up.