Hi everyone, at the meeting, there was a need raised, to summarize what happens when we will be ready for a release.
Before we get to building the actual release, we need to hold a vote about doing a release. If the vote passes, we can continue and start building the release. If there are objections to doing the release, people objecting to the release need to properly raise feedback and proposals about the problems they have with the release, so we can discuss or/and address them. Our release will need to be done semi-automatic. We have a set of release pipelines that need to be run in a series. The overall process is expected to be as follows: - runtimes release pipelines executed (1) - These pipelines will build all runtime libraries (e.g. from drools, kogito-runtimes, optaplanner, etc. repositories) and deploy the libraries to a staging environment in Maven Central. The document linked may need adjustments as we never did a release yet with the new CI in Apache. - The runtime libraries pipelines need to deploy the libraries also to an environment, from which the UI build (kie-tools and other related repositories) can consume them. It could be e.g. Apache Nexus, where we currently deploy build artifacts from the nightly builds. - UI release pipelines are executed (2). They deploy the build artifacts to the staging environment. - Images and other remaining release pipelines are executed. The built images and other remaining release artifacts are deployed to a staging environment. When we have all required artifacts prepared in the staging environments, we need to ask the Incubator IPMC members to have a vote about our release. They will provide feedback to us and cast a vote. If they approve the release, we will publish the artifacts from the staging environments to the public ones. If they don't approve the release, we need to fix the release based on their feedback and do it again from the start. More information about the release process and requirements in Apache can be found in the following links (3) (4). This is a work in progress summary, so if someone knows more about the release process, or something needs to be corrected or added, please reply to this thread. Best regards, Tibor (1) https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-pipelines/blob/main/docs/release%20pipeline.md (2) https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/blob/main/RELEASE_PROCESS.md (3) https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html (4) https://infra.apache.org/release-publishing.html
