# Release Workflow
#### Table of Content
- [1. Preparations](#preparations)
- [1.1. Issues](#issues)
- [1.2. Backport Commits](#backport-commits)
- [1.3. Authors](#authors)
- [2. Version](#version)
- [3. Changelog](#changelog)
- [4. Git Tag](#git-tag)
- [5. Package Builds](#package-builds)
- [5.1. RPM Packages](#rpm-packages)
- [5.2. DEB Packages](#deb-packages)
- [6. Build Server](#build-server)
- [7. Release Tests](#release-tests)
- [8. GitHub Release](#github-release)
- [9. Chocolatey](#chocolatey)
- [10. Post Release](#post-release)
- [10.1. Online Documentation](#online-documentation)
- [10.2. Announcement](#announcement)
- [10.3. Project Management](#project-management)
## Preparations
Specify the release version.
```
VERSION=2.8.3
```
Add your signing key to your Git configuration file, if not already there.
```
vim $HOME/.gitconfig
[user]
email = michael.friedrich@icinga.com
name = Michael Friedrich
signingkey = D14A1F16
```
### Issues
Check issues at https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2
### Backport Commits
For minor versions you need to manually backports any and all commits from the
master branch which should be part of this release.
### Authors
Update the [.mailmap](.mailmap) and [AUTHORS](AUTHORS) files:
```
git checkout master
git log --use-mailmap | grep '^Author:' | cut -f2- -d' ' | sort | uniq > AUTHORS
```
## Version
Update the version in the version file:
```
sed -i "s/Version: .*/Version: $VERSION/g" VERSION
```
## Changelog
Update the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) file.
Export these environment variables:
```
export ICINGA_GITHUB_AUTH_USERNAME='user'
export ICINGA_GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN='token'
export ICINGA_GITHUB_PROJECT='icinga/icinga2'
```
Run the script which updates the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) file.
```
./changelog.py
git diff
```
## Git Tag
> **Major Releases**: Commit these changes to the `master` branch.
>
> **Minor Releases**: Commit changes to the `support` branch.
```
git commit -v -a -m "Release version $VERSION"
```
Create a signed tag (tags/v) on the `master` branch (for major
releases) or the `support` branch (for minor releases).
```
git tag -s -m "Version $VERSION" v$VERSION
```
Push the tag:
```
git push --tags
```
**For major releases:** Create a new `support` branch:
```
git checkout master
git checkout -b support/2.9
git push -u origin support/2.9
```
**For minor releases:** Push the support branch, cherry-pick the release commit
into master and merge the support branch:
```
git push -u origin support/2.8
git checkout master
git cherry-pick support/2.8
git merge --strategy=ours support/2.8
git push origin master
```
## Package Builds
### RPM Packages
```
git clone git@github.com:icinga/rpm-icinga2.git && cd rpm-icinga2
```
#### Branch Workflow
**Major releases** are branched off `master`.
```
git checkout master && git pull
```
**Bugfix releases** are created in the `release` branch and later merged to master.
```
git checkout release && git pull
```
#### Release Commit
Set the `Version`, `Revision` and `changelog` inside the spec file.
```
sed -i "s/Version: .*/Version: $VERSION/g" icinga2.spec
vim icinga2.spec
%changelog
* Tue Apr 24 2018 Jean Flach 2.8.3-1
- Update to 2.8.3
```
```
git commit -av -m "Release 2.8.3-1"
git push
```
**Note for major releases**: Update release branch to latest.
`git checkout release && git pull && git merge master && git push`
**Note for minor releases**: Cherry-pick the release commit into master.
`git checkout master && git pull && git cherry-pick release && git push`
### DEB Packages
```
git clone git@github.com:icinga/deb-icinga2.git && cd deb-icinga2
```
#### Branch Workflow
**Major releases** are branched off `master`.
```
git checkout master && git pull
```
**Bugfix releases** are created in the `release` branch and later merged to master.
```
git checkout release && git pull
```
#### Release Commit
Set the `Version`, `Revision` and `changelog` inside the spec file.
```
./dch 2.8.3-1 "Update to 2.8.3"
```
```
git commit -av -m "Release 2.8.3-1"
git push
```
```
git commit -av -m "Release 2.8.3-1"
```
**Note for major releases**: Update release branch to latest.
`git checkout release && git pull && git merge master && git push`
**Note for minor releases**: Cherry-pick the release commit into master.
`git checkout master && git pull && git cherry-pick release && git push`
#### DEB with dch on macOS
```
docker run -v `pwd`:/mnt/packaging -ti ubuntu:xenial bash
apt-get update
apt-get install git dev-tools vim
cd /mnt/packaging
git config --global user.name "Michael Friedrich"
git config --global user.email "michael.friedrich@icinga.com"
./dch 2.8.3-1 "Update to 2.8.3"
```
## Build Server
* Verify package build changes for this version.
* Test the snapshot packages for all distributions beforehand.
* Build the newly created Git tag for Debian/RHEL/SuSE.
* Build the newly created Git tag for Windows.
## Release Tests
* Test DB IDO with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
* Provision the vagrant boxes and test the release packages.
* Test the [setup wizard](https://packages.icinga.com/windows/) inside a Windows VM.
* Start a new docker container and install/run icinga2.
Example for CentOS7:
```
docker run -ti centos:latest bash
yum -y install https://packages.icinga.com/epel/icinga-rpm-release-7-latest.noarch.rpm
yum -y install icinga2
icinga2 daemon -C
```
## GitHub Release
Create a new release for the newly created Git tag: https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/releases
## Chocolatey
Navigate to the git repository on your Windows box which
already has chocolatey installed. Pull/checkout the release.
Create the nupkg package:
```
cpack
```
Install the created icinga2 package locally:
```
choco install icinga2 -version 2.8.3 -fdv "%cd%" -source "'%cd%;https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/'"
```
Upload the package to [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/packages/upload).
## Post Release
### Online Documentation
Ask @bobapple to update the documentation at docs.icinga.com.
### Announcement
* Create a new blog post on www.icinga.com/blog
* Social media: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/icinga), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/icinga), [G+](https://plus.google.com/+icinga), [Xing](https://www.xing.com/communities/groups/icinga-da4b-1060043), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Icinga-1921830/about)
* Update IRC channel topic
### Project Management
* Add new minor version on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/milestones).
* Close the released version on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/milestones).