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Dominic Cleal, 08/20/2013 11:30 AM
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Release Process

For each major release (i.e. not patch releases), the project selects a "release nanny" who's responsible for taking the develop branch through to release.

Please amend these lists as you see free, and as you find what works and what doesn't work.

First steps

  1. Select the release nanny
  2. Ensure RPM and Debian nightly packages are in good shape and all RPM dependencies are up to date
  3. Ensure Transifex project is up to date
  4. Decide on the version number
  5. If number has changed, update version number in redmine
  6. Add next+1 anticipated version number to redmine under Settings, sharing "With subprojects"
  7. Check roadmap and issue search (example)
    • reassign major features to next+1 version or remove version
    • assign relevant bugs to this upcoming release
    • multiple bugs can be managed using checkboxes and then right clicking on the boxes for a menu
    • create public custom query with target version set, sorted by status ascending, then priority descending
  8. Go through targeted features in redmine and align features with our backlog

Before creating branch in git

  1. Announce beginning of bug-squashing to foreman-dev (example)
  2. Copy website manual content (theforeman.org repo) from previous version to this version (example)
  3. Update manual if applicable for any additional installation steps
  4. Draft release notes in markdown (example) using roadmap, with these sections:
    1. Headline features: half a dozen important features with a few sentences description each
    2. Upgrade notes: all important notices that users must be aware of before upgrading
    3. Release notes: bullet point list by category of most changes, excluding bug fixes for issues introduced during the release cycle, include link to bug numbers
  5. Check git log for any changes without associated bug number and add to release notes if applicable
  6. Refresh kickstart, snippet and partition table templates from the community-templates repo to Foreman core
  7. Request creation of tags and build targets in Koji from rel-eng:
    • foreman-1.2-rhel6 etc. as clones of nightly tags
    • foreman-plugins-1.2-rhel6 etc. with inheritance from the new Foreman tags
  8. Add new plugin tags to SFK configuration in foreman-packaging

Pre-release candidates

When ready to branch for release candidates.

  1. Add new languages that are at a reasonable completion on Transifex to develop
  2. In foreman, smart-proxy and foreman-installer, branch develop to 1.2-stable
    • cherry-picks into this branch only from this point using: git cherry-pick -x SHA
  3. In foreman develop commit with message "Bump version to 1.2-develop":
    1. change to VERSION to 1.2-develop
    2. change foreman.spec to 1.2.9999, add %changelog entry
    3. run extras/changelog
    4. run rake locale:find
  4. In smart-proxy develop commit with message "Bump version to 1.2-develop":
    1. change to lib/proxy.rb VERSION to 1.2-develop
    2. change foreman-proxy.spec version to 1.2.9999, add %changelog entry
    3. run extra/changelog
  5. Update foreman-dev with translations status to encourage 100% translations before release, announce string freeze date
  6. Change Transifex resource URL to point to the 1.2-stable branch
  7. Update $repo in both foreman-installer/foreman and foreman_proxy modules to "rc" (example)
  8. Set up test_1_2_stable job on Jenkins, copy from existing stable or test_develop (don't use dots in the name, it breaks)
  9. Update release notes in new website manual version

For each release candidate

  1. Update version and dependency versions in all foreman-installer submodules (TODO: script this)
  2. Update submodules on foreman-installer's develop branch via PR, cherry-pick down to 1.2-stable
  3. Sync translations from Transifex directly into 1.2-stable (new languages go to develop first)
  4. Compare tagged packages in nightly vs. release koji tag and re-tag any updated dependencies that are required
  5. In foreman 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0-RC1":
    1. change to VERSION to 1.2.0-RC1
    2. change foreman.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "0.1.RC1", add %changelog entry
    3. run extras/changelog
    4. run rake locale:find if before string freeze
    5. change extras/packaging/rpm/sources/foreman.repo URL from /nightly to /rc, change "nightly" in name to "RC"
  6. In smart-proxy 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0-RC1":
    1. change to lib/proxy.rb VERSION to 1.2.0-RC1
    2. change foreman-proxy.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "0.1.RC1", add %changelog entry
    3. run extra/changelog
  7. In foreman-selinux 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0-RC1":
    1. change foreman-selinux.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "0.1", uncomment alphatag* (replace # with %) and change to RC1, add %changelog entry
  8. In foreman-installer 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0-RC1":
    1. change foreman-installer.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "0.1", uncomment alphatag* (replace # with %) and change to RC1, add %changelog entry
  9. Tag commits in foreman, smart-proxy, foreman-installer and foreman-selinux: git tag -m "Release 1.2.0-RC1" 1.2.0-RC1
  10. Push to your GitHub repo to enable testing first
  11. Perform RPM scratch build of foreman, foreman-installer, foreman-proxy and foreman-selinux (see RPM_Packaging)
    1. if they fail, revert your branch to current project/1.2-stable branch, fix the issue in your repo and retry until it works
  12. Push to the project repo: git push project && git push project 1.2.0-RC1
  13. RPM_Packaging: follow release procedure for foreman, foreman-proxy, foreman-installer and foreman-selinux using Jenkins
  14. Debian_Packaging: Update build.sh and changelog files with appropriate data
  15. Build foreman-installer modules from 1.2-stable (see Installer_Packaging workflow)
  16. Build foreman-installer Debian package from 1.2-stable (see Debian_Packaging)
  17. Update theforeman.org sections:
    1. both _includes/manuals/1.2/2_quickstart_guide.md and _includes/manuals/1.2/3.2.1_installation.md
      • supported platforms
      • foreman-release path (rc or releases), package version number
      • Debian platforms and repo name (rc or stable)
    2. _includes/releasesplash.html version number
    3. _includes/header.html manual links
  18. Generate and sign tarball of foreman and smart-proxy:
    1. git archive --prefix=foreman-1.2.0-RC1/ 1.2.0-RC1 | bzip2 -9 > foreman-1.2.0-RC1.tar.bz2
    2. gpg -b -u packages@theforeman.org foreman-1.2.0-RC1.tar.bz2 (requires packages key)
  19. Follow "Publishing releases" below

For final release

  1. Update $repo in both foreman-installer/foreman and foreman_proxy modules to "stable" (example)
  2. Update version and dependency versions in all foreman-installer submodules (TODO: script this)
  3. Update submodules on foreman-installer's develop branch via PR, cherry-pick down to 1.2-stable
  4. Sync translations from Transifex directly into 1.2-stable (new languages go to develop first)
  5. Compare tagged packages in nightly vs. release koji tag and re-tag any updated dependencies that are required
  6. In foreman 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0":
    1. change to VERSION to 1.2.0
    2. change foreman.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "1", add %changelog entry
    3. run extras/changelog
    4. run rake locale:find
    5. change extras/packaging/rpm/sources/foreman.repo URL from /rc to /releases/1.2, change in name to "stable"
  7. In smart-proxy 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0":
    1. change to lib/proxy.rb VERSION to 1.2.0
    2. change foreman-proxy.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "1", add %changelog entry
    3. run extra/changelog
  8. In foreman-selinux 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0":
    1. change foreman-selinux.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "1", comment alphatag* (replace % with #), add %changelog entry
  9. In foreman-installer 1.2-stable commit with message "Release 1.2.0":
    1. change foreman-installer.spec version to "1.2.0", release to "1", comment alphatag* (replace % with #), add %changelog entry
  10. Tag commits in foreman, smart-proxy, foreman-installer and foreman-selinux: git tag -m "Release 1.2.0" 1.2.0
  11. Push to your GitHub repo to enable testing first
  12. Perform RPM scratch build of foreman, foreman-installer, foreman-proxy and foreman-selinux (see RPM_Packaging)
    1. if they fail, revert your branch to current project/1.2-stable branch, fix the issue in your repo and retry until it works
  13. Push to the project repo: git push project && git push project 1.2.0
  14. RPM_Packaging: follow release procedure for foreman, foreman-proxy, foreman-installer and foreman-selinux using Jenkins
  15. Debian_Packaging: Update build.sh and changelog files with appropriate data
  16. Build foreman-installer modules from 1.2-stable (see Installer_Packaging workflow)
  17. Build foreman-installer Debian package from 1.2-stable (see Debian_Packaging)
  18. Update theforeman.org sections:
    1. both _includes/manuals/1.2/2_quickstart_guide.md and _includes/manuals/1.2/3.2.1_installation.md
      • supported platforms
      • foreman-release path (/releases/1.2), package version number
      • Debian platforms and component name (stable)
    2. _includes/releasesplash.html remove old version, update stable
    3. _includes/header.html manual links
    4. _layouts/homepage.html quickstart link
  19. Generate and sign tarball of foreman and smart-proxy:
    1. git archive --prefix=foreman-1.2.0/ 1.2.0 | bzip2 -9 > foreman-1.2.0.tar.bz2
    2. gpg -b -u packages@theforeman.org foreman-1.2.0.tar.bz2 (requires packages key)
  20. Merge develop branches into master (git merge -Xtheirs --no-ff) for: foreman, smart-proxy, foreman-installer, foreman-selinux
  21. Follow "Publishing releases" below

Publishing releases (RCs and final)

  1. Sign all RPMs (see RPM_Packaging)
  2. Run or request (from rel-eng) RPM repo mash/compose for Koji release tags
  3. Do a dry run of the RPM push process to check repoclosure etc. (see RPM_Packaging)
  4. Push RPMs to repo on the web host, under /rc or /releases/1.2 etc using Jenkins (see RPM_Packaging)
  5. Push foreman-installer to Freight (see Debian_Packaging)
  6. Upload tarballs and detached signatures to http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/files
    1. Final only: delete all existing RC files to free up space
  7. Upload all installer module .tar.gz files to Puppet Forge
  8. Final only: update $latest class parameter on web class to point to the new version number (see foreman-infra/puppet/modules/web/manifests/init.pp)
  9. Send announcement e-mail to foreman-announce, CC foreman-users, set reply-to to foreman-users
  10. Link to announcement e-mail on IRC, Google+ and update IRC /topic

After final release

  1. Sync translations from Transifex into develop and run rake locale:find
  2. Remove target version from all issues assigned to the current release, unless they will be fixed in a future point release

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 10 years ago · 52 revisions