Yeah, I agree. It’s better to move the release process to the codebase. Regarding the automatic validation program, we can have that for some common verifications like the GPG verification, which only requires a simple command if you have downloaded the binary.
Thanks, Yunze > 2022年8月12日 18:12，PengHui Li <peng...@apache.org> 写道： > > Thanks for raising this question. > > Maybe we'd better move the release process doc and validation doc > to the codebase, not the wiki pages. > > - Only committers can update the wiki pages > - The changes without review > > After moving to the pulsar codebase > > - Everyone can contribute to the validation doc > - The release process doc update can get reviewers to review > > I think there are multiple issues that need to be resolved for the release > process > > - Have the Python client(Linux, osx) at the RC stage, I think currently we > only have the C++ client for RC, but push to pypi after the RC gets passed > - Add validation process for the Python and C++ client > - Add the Go function and Python function validation process > - Add a script for building images for RC > - Add images validation process > > And another point is can we have an automatic validation program to reduce > the burden on validators? > I'm not sure if it is acceptable. > > Thanks, > Penghui > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 4:50 PM Haiting Jiang <jianghait...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> the 7th step is "Write release notes", should we execute this >>> step later? >> >> From what I see, the release note can be postponed after the voting >> process. >> And it's not part of the voting content and does not affect whether we >> should cut a new release candidate. >> >>> In addition, I found the previous candidate [2] includes the docker >>> images, which is not included in the template of the 8th step "Run the >>> vote". It seems to be the 10th step "Publish Docker Images". >> >> Confused +1, If we do add docker image as part of release vote, we should >> also add validation method in [1] >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/wiki/Release-Candidate-Validation >> >> Thanks, >> Haiting >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 9:49 PM Yunze Xu <y...@streamnative.io.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Recently I'm working on the release of 2.8.4 and it's near the vote of >>> the 1st candidate but I have some questions. >>> >>> From the tutorial [1] we can see, the 8th step is "Run the vote". >>> However, the 7th step is "Write release notes", should we execute this >>> step later? I see the 16th step is also "Write release notes" but the >>> 16th step at the beginning of "Release workflow" section is "Update >>> the site". >>> >>> In addition, I found the previous candidate [2] includes the docker >>> images, which is not included in the template of the 8th step "Run the >>> vote". It seems to be the 10th step "Publish Docker Images". >>> >>> It seems that the documents are not maintained well, which really >>> makes me confused. Therefore, before voting for the 1st candidate, I >>> want to get some clarifications from the mail list. >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/wiki/Release-process >>> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/q0g5ko617rb77b1wqpxy94ks5mq48d88 >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Yunze >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
