ARC 6.17 Release
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Heads up for release to nordugrid-discuss with link to estimated timeline and main planned changes (this issue) (@maikenp) -
Skeleton of release notes in place !1553 (merged) (@maikenp) -
Identify a set of minimal tests for the most important changes, and enter description of test here: https://source.coderefinery.org/nordugrid/arc/wikis/Testing/ARC-6.17.0 (Developers) -
Any changes worth mentioning in the release notes must have a Bugzilla ticket, the Bugzilla ticket number must be referred as (Fixes BUGZ-xxx) in MR (developer) -
Check that MR titles make sense, and that all MRs have component and type labels (Developers) -
Install latest nightly before tag on minimum two production sites and fill out https://source.coderefinery.org/nordugrid/arc/wikis/Testing/ARC-6.17.0 -
Latest nightlies runs w/o problems - report in wiki mentioned above -
Release notes DONE (@maikenp) -
Translations DONE (@oxana) -
Create tag for release on master commit-hash: f050b6ec (@maikenp) -
Start build for nordugrid repo (@waananen) -
Start build on Fedora and Debian (@ellert) -
Check that the supported platforms are up to date here: https://download.nordugrid.org/repos-6.html and here: http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/arc6/common/repos/repository.html (@waananen) -
Add version to NorduGrid Bugzilla products (@waananen) -
Publish release notes on web (@oxana) -
Packages are ready to be pushed (@waananen) -
Announce release on nordugrid-discuss, wlcg-arc-ce-discuss and urt-discuss@mailman.egi.eu email lists (@maikenp) -
Update News about release: http://www.nordugrid.org/ (@oxana) -
Update link to latest release: http://www.nordugrid.org/arc/ (@oxana) -
Push packages to the repo (@waananen)
Important bugs/changes to clear before code-freeze:
MR with release notes: xxx @nordugrid
Estimated timeline
- Code-freeze: Mon 21.11
- Testing nightlies: Mon-Tue
- Tag and start build for release: Wed 23.11
- Release ready: Thu 24.11
List of merges in this release
- !1551 (merged) handle multiple davs checksums, do not compare different types (BUGZ-4094)
- !1545 (merged) Support SWIG 4.1
- !1543 (merged) Drop dependency on python isodate
- !1535 (merged) In case of failed submission delete created files more reliably.
- !1527 (merged) Fix XML syntax warnings
- !1519 (merged) Adding forgotten quotes around echo statement
- !1514 (merged) Openssl config enhancements
Edited by Oxana Smirnova