General Retrospective for April 2023 Releases

[andrew-m-leonard]

Summary

A retrospective for all efforts surrounding the titular releases.

All community members are welcome to contribute to the agenda via comments below.

This will be a virtual meeting after the release, with at least a week of notice in the #release Slack channel.

On the day of the meeting the agenda items will be iterated over, with a list of actions added in a comment at/near the end.

Invited: Everyone.

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Details

Retrospective Owner Tasks (in order):

• Post this issue's URL on the #Release Slack channel around the start of the new release.
• Copy actions from the previous retrospective into this issue, while ignoring actions that are ticked or have issue links (i.e. clearly-completed actions).
• Wait until 90% of all builds have been released, with no clear signs of additional respins.
• Announce the retrospective Slack call's date + time on #Release at least one full week in advance, and send out meeting invites.
• Host the slack call for the retrospective, including:
  • Iterating over the actions from the previous retrospective issue, ticking off completed items.
  • Iterate over the agenda, ensuring everything gets debated.
  • Create a clear list of actions at the end of the retrospective, including volunteer names.
• Create a new retrospective issue for the next release.
• Set yourself a calendar reminder so that you remember to commence step 1 (in the new issue) just before the next release.
• Close this issue.

[smlambert]

JDK20, we still launched the builds for the 3 platforms we knew were not in plan for the release (AIX, s390x, arm32) and I caught myself triaging one, before I remembered that I did not need to put effort there.

Created: adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines#698

[smlambert]

Reorganize the template for the release status issue to put the 2 additional primary platforms (aarch64 Linux, aarch64 Mac) at the top of the table and in bold.

Created: #226

[smlambert]

Extended.openjdk on AIX is being run in parallel mode across 3 nodes, but there is only a single node online with AIX 72 label, so it should not be launched in parallel and hits 15 hr time_limit without completion.

Created: adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines#699

[steelhead31]

Improve/add installers specific checklist/matrix element, to ensure all combinations of version(8,11,17,etc) , type(JDK/JRE) , architectures & distros are covered.

[andrew-m-leonard]

Forgot to specify overridePublishName parameter, for jdk8 arm32 build, so job artifacts named wrong:
OpenJDK8U-debugimage_arm_linux_hotspot_8u372b07-aarch32-20230426.tar.gz
@sxa Had to rename jenkins job artifacts on the file system..

[andrew-m-leonard]

Improve installers & dockerhub release "checklist", maybe add issue template to each repo, and link for main checklist..

[steelhead31]

Issue for checklists : #227

[adamfarley]

Actions have been copied into the July General Retrospective. Closing this issue.

[adamfarley]

@andrew-m-leonard - Please close, thx.