Next Thursday will be 1-month since the pulpcore and pulpcore-plugin rc2 releases, so it's time to start coordinating rc3. Please give feedback on any aspect here that could be improved. Feedback and changes are welcome.
# rc3 timeline and blockers I'm proposing June 24th as the rc3 release date. If there is some issue you want to block pulpcore or pulpcore-plugin's rc3 release please add the Redmine link onto this blockers etherpad: https://etherpad.net/p/pulpcore_rc3_blocker_list # stable, committed migrations Based on feedback with RC3 pulpcore and pulpcore-plugin will start committing migrations and not modifying/rebasing them. We are asking plugin writers to do the same. This will make consuming new release candidates easier. It does not mean we are committing that a user could upgrade a RC system to a GA system. # release notes If you want the rc3 release notes to reflect a piece of work that does not have an entry in the CHANGES directory, you can still add them. Put your entries in the CHANGES directory. This should be true of your core and also plugins who have adopted the towncrier tooling for release notes. # version in source Users are becoming confused in the /status/ API about what bits they have with source checkouts. To resolve this pulpcore and pulpcore-plugin will contain the nextVersion.dev as its version going forward. So today we're applying versions 3.0.0rc3.dev and 0.1.0rc3.dev to pulpcore and pulpcore-plugin in source control respectively. We are asking plugin writers to also adopt this approach. On release day we will will drop the .dev, and then increment it to 3.0.0rc4.dev, etc. # releasing rc3 compatible plugins I don't believe rc3 has any breaking changes in the plugin API requiring significant updates. For your users to use the RC3, you'll need to ensure your plugin's setup.py will allow that newer version to be installer. Please reach out on-list or on IRC if you want any help with this. # exclusively importing from pulpcore.plugin Please update your plugins to import from pulpcore.plugin exclusively. Any import that imports from another package underneath pulpcore is not part of the plugin API. For example imports 'from pulpcore.app.models import X' should become 'from pulpcore.plugin.models import X'. this is important to ensure we've got all the necessary objects plugins use available via the plugin API. # When is GA? There are issues being discovered by Katello as they integrate against Pulp3. These usability issues also affect general Pulp users. It's nothing epic, but the changes do produce small backwards incompatible changes. We'll have more confidence once there are no open Katello integration blockers. You can see that list here: https://tinyurl.com/y395d4gn Also the migration tooling plan is coming along very nicely, but going to GA requires that work to have progressed further also (I feel). GA-ing Pulp3 and then realizing we can't migrate pulp2 content effectively into it would be good to avoid. Finally, the RPM plugin, the mainstay of Pulp2's usage, has a few significant features to develop which could produce some not-insignificant changes in core. One GA perspective is to wait on rpm to make those feature and for katello to integrate those too to have full confidence Pulp3 is ready for Katello. FWIW, those efforts are underway already. # Feedback Please send it any way you feel comfortable. If you feel we're not doing something right please tell us! Thank you, Brian
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