name: Cut Release
about: Create a new release checklist
title: 'Cut VERSION'
labels: 'kind/release'
assignees: ''Summary: Task covering patch release work.
Dev Complete: RELEASE_DATE (Typically ~1 week prior to upstream release date)
List of required releases: To release as soon as able for QA:
- VERSION
To release once have approval from QA:
- VERSION (Never release on a Friday unless specified otherwise)
Prep work:
- PM: Dev and QA team to be notified of the incoming releases - add event to team calendar
- PM: Dev and QA team to be notified of the date we will mark the latest release as stable - add event to team calendar [ONLY APPLICABLE FOR LATEST MINOR RELEASE]
- QA: Review changes and understand testing efforts
- Release Captain: Prepare release notes in our private release-notes repo (submit PR for changes taking care to carefully check links and the components, once merged, create the release in GitHub and mark as a draft and check the pre-release box, fill in title, set target release branch, leave tag version blank for now until we are ready to release)
- QA: Validate and close out all issues in the release milestone.
Vendor and release work:
- Release Captain: Vendor in the new patch version and release rancher/kubernetes
- Release Captain: Tag and release any necessary RCs for QA to test K3s and KDM on the Rancher side
- Release Captain: Tag and release when have QA approval
Post-Release work:
- Release Captain: Once release is fully complete (CI is all green and all release artifacts exist), edit the release, uncheck "Pre-release", and save.
- Release Captain: Prepare PRs as needed to update KDM in the appropriate dev branches.
- PM: Close the milestone in GitHub.