RELEASE.md

chectl release process

Make release changes and push them to your personal fork

CHE_VERSION="7.7.0" && \
BRANCH_NAME="7.7.x" && \
FORK="l0rd/chectl" && \
./make-release.sh ${CHE_VERSION} ${BRANCH_NAME} ${FORK}

Create a PR using hub

hub is an extension to command-line git that helps you do everyday GitHub tasks without ever leaving the terminal.

GH_USER="l0rd" && \
RELEASE_ISSUE_LINK="https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/15504" && \
hub pull-request --browse \
                 --base che-incubator:${BRANCH_NAME} \
                 --head ${GH_USER}:${BRANCH_NAME} \
                 -m "chore(release): release version ${CHE_VERSION}" \
                 -m "### What does this PR do?" \
                 -m "Release version ${CHE_VERSION}" \
                 -m "### What issues does this PR fix or reference?" \
                 -m "${RELEASE_ISSUE_LINK}"

Wait for a review approval and then merge it.

Release

1. Delete the old chectl release branch from GitHub if it exist (manually)

2. Push to release branch:

   GIT_REMOTE_UPSTREAM=git@github.com:che-incubator/chectl.git && \
   git push ${GIT_REMOTE_UPSTREAM} ${BRANCH_NAME}:release

3. Track TravisCI Job