Release process¶
This document describes the process for making a Bodhi release.
Branches¶
Bodhi follows semantic versioning, and so backwards incompatible changes get a major release, releases with new features get a minor release, and releases that only contain bug fixes get a patch release.
To aid in maintaining this scheme, Bodhi uses branches named with the scheme major.minor
to keep
track of feature releases. Once a major.minor
branch is created and a release is tagged, only
bugfixes should be added to that branch.
When you wish to make a patch release, simply cherry pick (described below) the patches you wish to
include in the release to the appropriate major.minor
branch.
If you wish to make a minor release, you will need to create a new major.minor
branch.
Typically we would do this by branching from a desired commit on the develop
branch, unless
there are backwards incompatible changes in develop
. If develop
has backwards incompatible
commits that we don’t want to release with, you should branch from the most recent major.minor
branch, and then cherry pick the desired commits from develop
.
Of course, if you want to make a new major release, simply create a major.minor
branch from the
desired commit on develop
.
Cherry picking¶
To simplify the release process, almost all patches are sent to the develop
branch. Once they
are reviewed and merged, they can be cherry picked to a major.minor
branch if desired. To aid in
this process, we use Mergify’s patch backporting feature. For each actively maintained
release there should be a backporting action in the Mergify config and an associated GitHub label.
For example, as of the time of this writing we have active 3.12 and 3.13 branches, so we have GitHub
labels called 3.12-backports
and 3.13-backports
. Any pull requests tagged with either of
these tags will cause Mergify to backport the associated patch to the relevant branch via a new pull
request.
Note
The backporting feature is configured in .mergify.yml
.
How to make a release¶
Preparation¶
- If you are making a new major or minor release:
- Create the new
major.minor
branch in the upstream Bodhi repository. - Prepare the
.mergify.yml
file for the newmajor.minor
branch as described above. - Configure
devel/ci/cico.pipeline
to check out themajor.minor
branch so it is available todiff-cover
later. This is needed to getdiff-cover
to be able to compare against the newmajor.minor
branch. You can find the spot to do this by searching for the mention ofdiff-cover
in a comment. An example is available in this pull request. - Similarly, we need to adjust
diff-cover
to use the newmajor.minor
branch for comparison indevel/ci/bodhi-ci
. You can find the spot to edit by searching for the--compare-branch
flag being passed todiff-cover
.
- Create the new
- Raise the version to the appropriate value in
setup.py
anddocs/conf.py
. - Use
git log
to find all commits that are new in this release and use the commit messages to write release notes indocs/user/release_notes.rst
. You can filtergit log
to show commit that differ between two git refs to help. For example, to see differences between3.12
and3.13
, you could usegit log 3.12..3.13
. Be aware that any commits that were cherry picked to3.12
will show up in this example and we wouldn’t want to mark those commits as being new in3.13
. - Add a note to all the associated issues and pull requests to let them know they will be included in this release.
Build a beta¶
Bodhi uses the Fedora Rawhide spec file to build production RPMs for the Fedora Infrastructure repositories. As upstream Bodhi does not have any infrastructure of its own for beta testing, we use Fedora’s staging instance of Bodhi to do our beta testing. Thus, in order to build and test the beta using these instructions, you will need administrative access to the staging Bodhi deployment and you will need access to build in the staging infrastructure repository.
To build the beta, follow these steps:
Clone the Bodhi spec file repository:
$ fedpkg clone bodhi
Alter the spec file to build the commit you want to test rather than a tagged release. Use a value less than one for the release field on betas (for example the first might be 0.0, the second might be 0.1, and so on). For example, to test
e0ca5bc5d36e8cca5bd126879a036006356645e6
(which is a 3.13 beta), a patch like this will work:$ git diff diff --git a/bodhi.spec b/bodhi.spec index eaf3415..d3684be 100644 --- a/bodhi.spec +++ b/bodhi.spec @@ -1,16 +1,21 @@ %global bashcompdir %(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion 2>/dev/null) %global bashcomproot %(dirname %{bashcompdir} 2>/dev/null) +%global commit e0ca5bc5d36e8cca5bd126879a036006356645e6 +%global commit_short %(c=%{commit}; echo ${c:0:7}) + Name: bodhi -Version: 3.12.0 -Release: 100%{?dist} +Version: 3.13.0 +Release: 0.0.beta.%{commit_short}%{?dist} BuildArch: noarch License: GPLv2+ Summary: A modular framework that facilitates publishing software updates Group: Applications/Internet URL: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi -Source0: %{url}/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz +Source0: %{url}/archive/%{commit}/%{name}-%{commit}.tar.gz +Patch0: 0000-Set-the-version-to-beta-0.patch BuildRequires: %{py2_dist click} BuildRequires: %{py2_dist iniparse} @@ -241,7 +248,7 @@ updates for a software distribution. %prep -%autosetup -p1 -n bodhi-%{version} +%autosetup -p1 -n bodhi-%{commit} # Kill some dev deps sed -i '/pyramid_debugtoolbar/d' setup.py @@ -270,7 +277,7 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} -C docs man %install %py2_install # Let's remove all the server stuff since we don't ship Python 2 version of the server anymore. -rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}_server-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info +rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}_server-%{version}b0-py%{python2_version}.egg-info rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}/server %py3_install @@ -346,7 +353,7 @@ rm .coveragerc %doc README.rst %dir %{python2_sitelib}/%{name}/ %{python2_sitelib}/%{name}/__init__.py* -%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info +%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}b0-py%{python2_version}.egg-info %files -n python3-bodhi @@ -355,21 +362,21 @@ rm .coveragerc %dir %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/ %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/__init__.py %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/__pycache__ -%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info +%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}b0-py%{python3_version}.egg-info %files -n python2-bodhi-client %license COPYING %doc README.rst %{python2_sitelib}/%{name}/client -%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}_client-%{version}-py%{python2_version}.egg-info +%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}_client-%{version}b0-py%{python2_version}.egg-info %files -n python3-bodhi-client %license COPYING %doc README.rst %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/client -%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}_client-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info +%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}_client-%{version}b0-py%{python3_version}.egg-info %files server @@ -392,7 +400,7 @@ rm .coveragerc %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/fedmsg.d/* %dir %{_sysconfdir}/bodhi/ %{python3_sitelib}/%{name}/server -%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}_server-%{version}-py%{python3_version}.egg-info +%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}_server-%{version}b0-py%{python3_version}.egg-info %{_mandir}/man1/bodhi-*.1* %{_mandir}/man1/initialize_bodhi_db.1* %attr(-,bodhi,root) %{_datadir}/%{name} @@ -406,6 +414,10 @@ rm .coveragerc %changelog +* Fri Jan 11 2019 Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs@fedoraproject.org> - 3.13.0-0.0.beta.e0ca5bc +- Update to 3.13.0. +- https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/releases/tag/3.13.0 + * Mon Dec 17 2018 Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs@fedoraproject.org> - 3.12.0-100 - Upgrade to 3.12.0. - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/releases/tag/3.12.0 $ cat 0000-Set-the-version-to-beta-0.patch From 77f54fee023fcbfb06f7e72b3b993d39f7678efa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:19:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Set the version to beta 0. Signed-off-by: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> --- docs/conf.py | 2 +- setup.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py index 59edc0a8..1ba87387 100644 --- a/docs/conf.py +++ b/docs/conf.py @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ copyright = u'2007-{}, Red Hat, Inc.'.format(datetime.datetime.utcnow().year) # The short X.Y version. version = '3.13' # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags. -release = '3.13.0' +release = '3.13.0b0' # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation # for a list of supported languages. diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 44566ff5..74297bb5 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def get_requirements(requirements_file='requirements.txt'): here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read() -VERSION = '3.13.0' +VERSION = '3.13.0b0' # Possible options are at https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers CLASSIFIERS = [ 'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable', -- 2.20.1
Perform any other spec file alterations that might be needed for this release (such as adding or removing dependencies).
Build the beta for Fedora Infrastructure’s staging repository. At the time of writing, Bodhi runs on Fedora 29, so here’s an example of building for the f29-infra-stg repository:
$ rpmbuild --define "dist .fc29.infra" -bs bodhi.spec Wrote: /home/bowlofeggs/rpmbuild/SRPMS/bodhi-3.13.0-0.0.beta.e0ca5bc.fc29.src.rpm $ koji build f29-infra /home/bowlofeggs/rpmbuild/SRPMS/bodhi-3.13.0-0.0.beta.e0ca5bc.fc29.src.rpm
Build the beta for bowlofegg’s bodhi-pre-release Copr repository:
$ copr build bowlofeggs/bodhi-pre-release /home/bowlofeggs/rpmbuild/SRPMS/bodhi-3.13.0-0.0.beta.e0ca5bc.fc29.src.rpm
It’s a good idea to also do a scratch build against Fedora Rawhide just to make sure things build there:
$ koji build --scratch rawhide /home/bowlofeggs/rpmbuild/SRPMS/bodhi-3.13.0-0.0.beta.e0ca5bc.fc29.src.rpm
Deploy the beta to staging¶
To deploy to beta to staging, read the Fedora Infrastructure Bodhi SOP.
Notify people that the beta has been deployed so they can test and provide feedback.
You can notify the tickets that are referenced in the release notes, Fedora IRC channels (
#bodhi
, #fedora-admin
, #fedora-apps
, #fedora-devel
, #fedora-releng
, and
#fedora-qa
), and the Fedora infrastructure mailing list.
Test the beta¶
Testing beta builds in staging can be a bit tricky. One problem you may encounter is that the staging Koji instance doesn’t have all the data from production, and its database most likely wasn’t synchronized with production data at the same time that Bodhi’s database was. The latter means that Bodhi may reference some data that isn’t in the staging Koji database. To overcome this problem, I’ve found it to be best to make a fresh build of a package in the staging Koji database so I can be sure that Koji has the RPM and that Bodhi can be synchronized with Koji about the resulting update.
I personally update with a small package that I have ACLs on called python-rpdb. I usually just bump the release on it and make another build, being careful to do this in the staging git repository and not production. Then I make an update in staging Bodhi with that build and do my testing from there. I don’t do extremely extensive testing, since that is what our unit and integration tests are for.
One test I recommend, however, is to run a compose with the newly minted update. At the time of this
writing, our integration test suite does not test integration with Koji or Pungi, and this is a
critical function of Bodhi. To do this, you will need to run bodhi-push
on
bodhi-backend01.stg.fedoraproject.org
. As an example, if I had built a test update for
python-rpdb-2.3-3.fc29
and I wanted to compose it, I would run this:
$ sudo -u apache bodhi-push --builds python-rpdb-2.3-3.fc29
Note
We limit to just the build we built for testing here, because a full compose will fail due to the issues described earlier between staging and production Koji.
Of course, if you find issues during testing you should fix those issues upstream and produce a new beta and test again.
Release Bodhi upstream¶
Once you are satisfied with the quality of the beta and the beta has been in staging for a while (a week is typical) to give people time to test and provide feedback, it is time to make a release.
We start by checking out the branch we want to make a release on, and we use git tag
to create a
tag. Be sure to use the -s flag to sign the commit with your GPG key:
$ git tag -s 3.13.0
Your $EDITOR
will be opened for you to write the release notes into the tag. You can copy the
release notes into there, and I typically change the format from RST to markdown for this because
it’s a little easier to read in plain text, and we will also paste the release notes into GitHub in
a bit and it’ll be useful to have a markdown version anyway. You don’t need to use markdown if you
prefer not to, it’s just a suggestion.
Note
If you do use markdown in the git tag notes, don’t use the #
character to specify
headings because git will interpret those lines as comments.
Push the tag up to GitHub:
$ git push origin --tags
Now go to the releases page in GitHub, click the tags submenu, find the tag you just made, click the “…“‘s next to it, and choose “Create release”. I usually just make the title along the lines of “Bodhi 3.13.0 released”. It’d be nice if GitHub used the tag message you just wrote in git, but it does not. Fortunately, you might have just formatting it with markdown anyway and can copy and paste it into the GitHub release notes:
$ git show 3.13.0
The next step is to release Bodhi to PyPI. To do this, we will make a source build:
$ python3 setup.py sdist
This will drop source tarballs into the dist/
folder for the various bodhi packages. Now you can
use twine
to sign the builds and upload them to PyPI, substituting your GPG key ID where mine is
below:
$ twine upload -s -i 3BDD2462 dist/*
Release Bodhi downstream¶
Next it is time to release Bodhi downstream. Don’t forget to remove the patch you made earlier to set its version to a beta, and all the code that used commit hashes instead of versions.
Note
Be sure to consider whether the version you are releasing would be backwards incompatible for the various stable releases of Bodhi. Major releases should only go to Rawhide.
Deploy the beta to staging and production¶
As before, read the Fedora Infrastructure Bodhi SOP for details on how we deploy Bodhi in Fedora Infrastructure.
It is wise to deploy the real release to staging as a sanity check before deploying to production.
Notifications¶
Notify people that the release and deployment are done. You can notify the tickets that are
referenced in the release notes, Fedora IRC channels (#bodhi
, #fedora-admin
,
#fedora-apps
, #fedora-devel
, #fedora-releng
, and #fedora-qa
), and the Fedora
infrastructure mailing list.