Release 12.2.1
Preparation
- Preparation MR's should already be created
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Ensure any backports targeting 12.2.1 are merged to their stable counter part -
Perform automated merging into the preparation branches: # In Slack /chatops run release merge 12.2.1
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Merge the preparation branches -
For omnibus-gitlab
add the changes to the stable branches: cherry-pick remaining merge requests directly into CE stable branch. Then, merge the CE Omnibus stable branch into EE. - Check the following list of critical issues/MRs which are to be included in
12.2.1
. Ensure each has made both CE and EE or omnibus: -
Ensure builds are green on Omnibus CE stable branch and Omnibus EE stable branch
Packaging
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Tag 12.2.1
:# In Slack: /chatops run release tag 12.2.1
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While waiting for packages to build, now is a good time to prepare the blog post. Look at previous MRs for examples. => gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!28668 (merged) -
Check progress of EE packages build and CE packages build. - This might take a while (around 80 min).
- We only need the EE packages to finish to continue with next steps.
Deploy
For patch releases, the only available environment for deploys is pre.gitlab.com
. All GitLab Inc. team members can login to that installation using their email address (through google oauth).
pre.gitlab.com
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[Deploy] 12.2.1
to pre.gitlab.com. Note that starting in release 11.6 staging deploys are automatically triggered from the EE omnibus pipelinegitlab_com:upload_deploy
stage.# In Slack: /chatops run deploy 12.2.1-ee.0 --pre
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Link to deployment job (even failed attempts) => https://ops.gitlab.net/gitlab-com/gl-infra/deployer/pipelines/74583
QA
The QA task issue is generated automatically when deploying to staging. If you need to manually generate the QA task, you can do so as follows:
# In Slack, replacing LAST_DEPLOYED_VERSION with the appropriate value:
/chatops run release qa vLAST_DEPLOYED_VERSION v12.2.1
Release
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Publish the packages via ChatOps: # In Slack: /chatops run publish 12.2.1
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Create the 12.2.1
version on version.gitlab.com -
Deploy the blog post -
In the #releases
channel, mention@contentteam
to tweet about the new release:"GitLab 12.2.1 is now available: [BLOG_POST_URL] [DESCRIPTION_OF_CHANGES]"
References
gitlab.com
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commits/12-2-stable
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/commits/12-2-stable-ee
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/commits/12-2-stable
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/commits/12-2-stable-ee
dev.gitlab.org
Edited by John Skarbek