Release Team Meeting 2026-06-17

ogajduse · June 17, 2026, 1:05pm

Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: Jun 17, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org

Foreman Nightly

Foreman is
Ondrej pushed fixes to the bot-created PRs that base rpm/develop, seeking review.

Odilon is out this week, and we don’t have anyone to provide updates.
[Ian] How are the Nightly containers built?
- The goal is to have Nightly container builds in sync with the RPM builds.
Investigating how to build nightly, meaning daily, and how to integrate it with PRs
- It is mostly a manual process at the moment
3.19.0 GA containers were released on quay.io/foreman/
[Ian] There’s a PR open to add Pulp upgrade container for development
- Odilon suggested a different approach
- Ian is seeking more reviews

Status Updates
- 3.18.1 TODO | 3.18.1 DONE
- CI Overview
CI is green
We expect a release in May(?). Exact date to be posted in the Release Procedure. If there’s a need for 3.18.z, please reach out to @ogajduse.
We may release next week if there’s enough content in the 3.18 branches

Status Updates
- 4.20.1 is out Katello 4.20.1 is now available
- 4.20.2 is in discussion, we’ll release if needed, but it’s less likely to happen

[Ian] How is the latest build of foremanctl built (RPM)?
- There is the nightly COPR project
- Talk to one of the three E about how it works

ekohl · June 17, 2026, 1:32pm

Packit takes care of it for us:


      
          - <<: *copr
            trigger: commit
            branch: master
            owner: '@theforeman'
            project: develop

evgeni · June 18, 2026, 6:07am

And just so that it linked once more, the whole concept of that repo is described in Foreman :: Packit-based nightlies or how to properly test plugins in production