Add initial release-process.md

[gotmax23]

Relates: #221

[gotmax23]

@anweshadas (and anyone else who has done the releases in the past that feels like chiming in) , I'd really appreciate your opinion here 😄. Am I missing anything important? Is there anything that you do differently? Is there anything that's incorrect?

Also I'd appreciate more information about the release announcements (step #8). I'm not sure where the the Matrix template comes from.

[felixfontein]

CC @rooftopcellist

[anweshadas]

I am working on this. Will be sharing this by this week.

[anweshadas]

I have a build check list, that might be helpful.

• Create an issue at ansible-build-data Github repo

• Communicate with the Community about the start and the progress

• Fork ansible-community/ansible-build-data

• Build the release artifacts and package

• PR to ansible-build-data

• PR to ansible/ansible (PR_Porting guide)

• Upload it to PyPI

• Release Announcement

• Git Tag

• Close the Github issue

[gotmax23]

• Release Announcement

Can you shed some more light on this step? Where do the announcement templates come from? What Matrix rooms and mailing lists are the announcements sent to?

[anweshadas]

We created a template for the announcement templates. We need to figure out a place to publish it. @gotmax23 can you suggest something?

[felixfontein]

I would put the template(s) in this repository as well (maybe some subdirectory of docs/, like docs/templates/?). That way it's also easier for folks to suggest improvements to the templates (by creating a PR).

[gotmax23]

I agree with @felixfontein that this repo is a good place to publish the announcement templates. I think a docs/announcements or maybe just a separate folder at the repo root would work.

[anweshadas]

I agree with @felixfontein that this repo is a good place to publish the announcement templates. I think a docs/announcements or maybe just a separate folder at the repo root would work.

I will do a separate PR on this then.

[gotmax23]

Thanks for the review @anweshadas! I left some follow up comments.

[gotmax23]

Triggering CI

[felixfontein]

The ansible docsite is now part of ansible/ansible-documentation.

[anweshadas]

Apart from those few small changes everything looks good.

[anweshadas]

I agree with @felixfontein that this repo is a good place to publish the announcement templates. I think a docs/announcements or maybe just a separate folder at the repo root would work.

I will do a separate PR on this then.

[anweshadas]

Created the PR #258 for the announcement templates.

The issue brought up about pip have been fixed.

[gotmax23]

CI is failing with:

t_systems_mms.icinga_director 2.0.0 is not tagged in https://github.com/T-Systems-MMS/ansible-collection-icinga-director

which is not related to this PR. I'll merge this and then follow the new directions about how to handle these errors :).

Thanks everyone for your feedback!