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Release Procedures

This SOP contains all the steps required by SIG/Core (a mix of Release Engineering and Infrastructure) to perform releases of all Rocky Linux versions. Work is in all collaboration within the entire group of engineerings.

Contact Information
Owner SIG/Core (Release Engineering & Infrastructure)
Email Contact infrastructure@rockylinux.org
Email Contact releng@rockylinux.org
Mattermost Contacts @label @neil @tgo @skip77 @mustafa @sherif @pgreco
Mattermost Channels ~Infrastructure

Preparation

Notes about Release Day

Within a minimum of two (2) days, the following should be true:

  1. Torrents should be setup. All files can be synced with the seed box(es) but not yet published. The data should be verified using sha256sum and compared to the CHECKSUM files provided with the files.

  2. Website should be ready (typically with an open PR in github). The content should be verified that the design and content are correct and finalized.

  3. Enough mirrors should be setup. This essentially means that all content for a release should be synced to our primary mirror with the executable bit turned off, and the content should also be hard linked. In theory, mirror manager can be queried to verify if mirrors are or appear to be in sync.

Notes about Patch Days

Within a minimum of one (1) to two (2) days, the following should be true:

  1. Updates should be completed in the build system, and verified in staging.

  2. Updates should be sent to production and file lists updated to allow mirrors to sync.

Prior to Release Day notes

Ensure the SIG/Core Checklist is read thoroughly and executed as listed.

Release Day

Priorities

During release day, these should be verified/completed in order:

  1. Website - The primary website and user landing at rockylinux.org should allow the user to efficiently click through to a download link of an ISO, image, or torrent. It must be kept up.

  2. Torrent - The seed box(es) should be primed and ready to go for users downloading via torrent.

  3. Release Notes & Documentation - The release notes are often on the same website as the documentation. The main website and where applicable in the docs should refer to the Release Notes of Rocky Linux.

  4. Wiki - If applicable, the necessary changes and resources should be available for a release. In particular, if a major release has new repos, changed repo names, this should be documented.

  5. Everything else!

Resources

SIG/Core Checklist

Beta

  • Compose Completed
  • Repoclosure must be checked and pass
  • Lorax Run
  • ISO's are built
  • Cloud Images built
  • Live Images built
  • Compose Synced to Staging
  • AWS/Azure Images in Marketplace
  • Vagrant Images
  • Container Images

  • Mirror Manager

    • Ready to Migrate from previous beta release (rltype=beta)
    • Boot image install migration from previous beta release

  • Pass image to Testing Team for final validation

Release Candidate

  • Compose Completed
  • Repoclosure must be checked and pass
  • Lorax Run
  • ISO's are built
  • Cloud Images built
  • Live Images built
  • Compose Synced to Staging
  • AWS/Azure Images in Marketplace
  • Vagrant Images
  • Container Images

  • Mirror Manager

    • Ready to Migrate from previous release
    • Boot image install migration from previous release

  • Pass image to Testing Team for validation

Final

  • Compose Completed
  • Repoclosure must be checked and pass
  • Lorax Run
  • ISO's are built
  • Cloud Images built
  • Live Images built
  • Compose Synced to Staging
  • AWS/Azure Images in Marketplace
  • Vagrant Images
  • Container Images

  • Mirror Manager

    • Ready to Migrate from previous release
    • Boot image install migration from previous release

  • Pass image to Testing Team for final validation

  • Sync to Production
  • Sync to Europe Mirror if applicable
  • Hardlink Run
  • Bitflip after 24-48 Hours

Resources

URL: https://accounts.rockylinux.org

Purpose: Account Services maintains the accounts for almost all components of the Rocky ecosystem

Technology: Noggin used by Fedora Infrastructure

Contact: ~Infrastructure in Mattermost and #rockylinux-infra in Libera IRC

URL: https://git.resf.org

Purpose: General projects, code, and so on for the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.

Technology: Gitea

Contact: ~Infrastructure, ~Development in Mattermost and #rockylinux-infra, #rockylinux-devel in Libera IRC

URL: https://github.com/rocky-linux

Purpose: General purpose code, assets, and so on for Rocky Linux. Some content is mirrored to the RESF Git Service.

Technology: GitHub

Contact: ~Infrastructure, ~Development in Mattermost and #rockylinux-infra, #rockylinux-devel in Libera IRC

URL: https://git.rockylinux.org

Purpose: Packages and light code for the Rocky Linux distribution

Technology: GitLab

Contact: ~Infrastructure, ~Development in Mattermost and #rockylinux-infra, #rockylinux-devel in Libera IRC

URL: https://lists.resf.org

Purpose: Users can subscribe and interact with various mail lists for the Rocky ecosystem

Technology: Mailman 3 + Hyper Kitty

Contact: ~Infrastructure in Mattermost and #rockylinux-infra in Libera IRC

Name Email Mattermost Name IRC Name
Louis Abel label@rockylinux.org @nazunalika Sokel/label/Sombra
Mustafa Gezen mustafa@rockylinux.org @mustafa mstg
Skip Grube skip@rockylinux.org @skip77
Sherif Nagy sherif@rockylinux.org @sherif
Pablo Greco pgreco@rockylinux.org @pgreco pgreco
Neil Hanlon neil@resf.org @neil neil
Taylor Goodwill tg@resf.org @tgo tg