Release team meeting agenda 2022-10-05

[ekohl]

CI

CentOS CI migration has been completed. See the Discourse post for more information:

CentOS CI migration completed

CentOS CI (which we rely on for our pipelines) has been making changes. Their legacy bare metal machines were phased out. This meant we had to change our approach. Taking foreman-nightly-rpm-pipeline [Jenkins] as an example, we have a number of operating systems (CentOS 8 Stream & AlmaLinux 8 at the moment). and for each we do both an install and upgrade tests. This results in 4 pipelines that we run to verify things. Where we previously provisioned one bare metal machine per pipe (meaning 4 m…

Foreman 3.5

Reminder that installer module releases start on October 24th and stabilization week starts on October 31st. Branching and RC1 is scheduled to happen the week after.

3.8.0 release TODO - Foreman

Foreman 3.4

From the Foreman 3.4.1 TODO:

• Bug #35438: hammer cannot use the cluster name or id as valid input when clusters are residing inside folders and fails with error fog not found - Foreman

See resolved issues.

@ekohl will create a release procedure scheduled for early next week. Mostly to address the Debian upgrade issue.

Foreman 3.3

See resolved issues

From the Foreman 3.3.1 TODO:

• Bug #35227: Autoindexing on /pub is broken because apache mod_autoindex is not loaded - Installer - Foreman

Refs #35227 - Make /pub browseable again by ekohl · Pull Request #812 · theforeman/foreman-installer · GitHub is open to address it.

@ekohl will create a release procedure scheduled for today.

Katello 4.7

The Katello team will find a release manager soon.
Note it follows Foreman 3.5’s branching schedule.

Katello 4.6:

4.6.1 not planned yet. Roadmap for 4.6.1:

Katello 4.6.1 - Katello - Foreman

Katello 4.5

Katello 4.5.1 is release is in progress:

Katello 4.5.1 release process

Make this post a wiki Roles Release Owner: @iballou Release Engineer: @Odilhao When Ready to Release Release Owner Request Hammer CLI Katello release from maintainers Request Virt Who Configure release from maintainers Request any other releases as needed from the release owners (consult the :repos: section of configs/katello/4.5.yaml) Change Redmine version 4.5.1 state to Closed Do Cherry-picks: Clone tool_belt If any minor versions of Katello have been added to …

Katello 4.4

Katello 4.4.2 release is in progress:

Katello 4.4.2 release process

Make this post a wiki Roles Release Owner: @iballou Release Engineer: @Odilhao When Ready to Release Release Owner Request Hammer CLI Katello release from maintainers Request Virt Who Configure release from maintainers Request any other releases as needed from the release owners (consult the :repos: section of configs/katello/4.4.yaml) Change Redmine version 4.4.2 state to Closed Do Cherry-picks: Clone tool_belt If any minor versions of Katello have been added to …