Revision as of 12:34, 5 October 2012

Raw notes for release managers, or release monkeys if need be.

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Conventions: Current release under development is "M" (2014.1), next release is "N" (2014.2)

Milestone release

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Final release

Pre-flight checks

Create N series

• Create N series
• Set status to Future, release manager

Missing files check

cd project
tarball-repo-diff

Tarball/version status

Check bugs

MP cut (switch master to next version)

Get PTL signoff

Bump master milestone code to n1

• Use common-bump-milestone Jenkins job
• Select project, "master" and type "n1"

Push new version to master as first n1 commit

• /!\ This needs to be done as the very first commit after the n1 milestone bump !

Create MP branch from previous commit

Process FixCommitted bugs

RC1 cut

Get PTL signoff

Push FINAL=True commit to MP

Wait for Final tarball

Bump MP milestone code to rc2

• Use common-bump-milestone Jenkins job
• Select project, "milestone-proposed" and type "rc2"

Push M-rc1 tag to MP

git checkout milestone-proposed
git pull
git tag -s folsom-rc1
git push --tags gerrit

Upload release

upload_release.py nova 2012.2 20120912.r15981 folsom-rc1

Announce RC1

Further RC-X windows

Decision to open next RC window

Create RC-X milestone page

Refine/fix bugs

Get candidate tarball

Get PTL signoff

Bump MP milestone code to next rcX+1

• Use common-bump-milestone Jenkins job
• Select project, "milestone-proposed" and type "rcX+1"

Push M-rcX tag to MP

git checkout milestone-proposed
git pull
git tag -s folsom-rc2
git push --tags gerrit

Upload release

upload_release.py nova 2012.2 20120926.r16267 folsom-rc3

Announce RC-X

Final release

Create final release milestone page

Push all bugs and blueprints to final page

consolidate_release_page.py nova folsom 2012.2

This can take a very long time. For large bugs you will have to run it multiple times. Verify all intermediary milestone pages are now empty.

Push 2014.1 tag to MP

Promote last RC to release

promote_rc.py PROJECT 2014.1 rc2

Add release notes link to release page

Announce 2014.1 release

Post-release

Update "Releases" wiki page

Switch dev focus to N

• Switch dev focus to N ad N status to under active development
• Switch M to current stable release, set release manager = openstack-stable-maint
• Switch M-1 to Obsolete

Clean M-rc-potential tags

Create devnull branch (from MP)

• Go to review.openstack.org project branch admin panel
• New branch: "devnull", Initial revision: "milestone-proposed"

Push 2014.1.1 version to devnull branch

git checkout -t -b devnull origin/devnull
vi nova/version.py
git commit -a
git review devnull

Create stable/folsom branch from devnull branch

• Go to review.openstack.org project branch admin panel
• New branch: "stable/folsom", Initial revision: "devnull"

Remove devnull and milestone-proposed branches

• In review.openstack.org project branch admin panel

Bump MP milestone code to n1

• Use common-bump-milestone Jenkins job
• Select project, "milestone-proposed" and type "n1"