Che 7.14.1 Release (respin of 7.14.0 due to release process error)

[nickboldt]

List of pending issues / PRs

• Update to latest clangd 0.1.5 and cdt-gdb-vscode 0.0.91 Update to latest clangd 0.1.5 and cdt-gdb-vscode 0.0.91 #17067
• Improve Che Release process cico_release.sh script Improve Che Release process cico_release.sh script #16732
• (add items)

Release status

In series, the following will be released via che-release:

• che-theia, che-machine-exec, che-devfile registry,
• che-plugin-registry (once che-theia and machine-exec are done)
• che-parent, che-dashboard, che-workspace-loader, and che (server assembly)

Then automatically:

• release che server in Maven Central

Then by script:

• che-operator
• generation of OperatorHub PRs
• chectl

• che-theia, che-machine-exec, che-devfile-registry, che-plugin-registry
• che-parent, che-dashboard, che-workspace-loader, che
• che-operator (depends on all of the above)
  • Update eclipse-che operator for openshift to release 7.14.1 operator-framework/community-operators#1830
  • Update eclipse-che operator for kubernetes to release 7.14.1 operator-framework/community-operators#1829
• chectl (depends on all of the above)

If this is a .0 release:

• complete current milestone
  • move incomplete deferred issues to backlog
  • move incomplete WIP issues to next milestone
  • close completed issues
  • close milestone

Owner	Process	Script	CI	Artifact(s) + Container(s)
@mkuznyetsov	che-theia	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-theia
@mkuznyetsov	che-machine-exec	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-machine-exec
@mkuznyetsov	che-plugin-registry	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-plugin-registry
@mkuznyetsov	che-devfile-registry	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-devfile-registry
@mkuznyetsov	che-parent	cico_release.sh	centos	che-parent
@mkuznyetsov	che-dashboard	cico_release.sh	centos	che-dashboard
@mkuznyetsov	che-workspace-loader	cico_release.sh	centos	che-workspace-loader
@mkuznyetsov	che	cico_release.sh	centos	che.core, eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-endpoint-watcher, eclipse/che-keycloak, eclipse/che-postgres, eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-e2e
@tolusha	che-operator	make-release.sh	?	eclipse/che-operator
@tolusha	chectl	make-release.sh	travis	chectl releases

[nickboldt]

A mistake was made during release of 7.14.0.

Maven artifacts of 7.14.0 were pushed to Nexus, before but they reference che-parent of 7.14.0-SNAPSHOT version rather than 7.14.0 release version.

So we need to roll out a new 7.14.1 release today to fix that error

[mkuznyetsov]

7.14.1 release complete, community operator PRs are created

[dmytro-ndp]

Release tests of MultiUser Eclipse Che 7.14.1 with TLS enabled, installed by chectl 7.14.1 using operator installer on different infrastructure:

1. E2E tests on minishift 3.11
   👌 E2E dashboard/factory tests on minishift - have passed
   👌 Happy path tests - have passed
   👌 ocp oauth tests - have passed
   👌 rolling strategy test - have passed
   👌 E2E Go, Python Django, Java Maven test, Java Vert.x tests - have passed
   ❌ NodeJS Express Web Application test failed - have failed, because of test flakiness.

2. E2E tests on minikube 1.1.1
   👌 Happy path tests, devfiles tests, git ssh flow tests - have passed

3. E2E tests on QE OCP
   ❌ dashboard/factory tests, devfile tests, git ssh flow tests on OCP 4.5 - tests failed because of issue "Workspace start failed on OCP because it was unable to perform mkdir command".
   ❌ devfile tests, git ssh flow tests of Eclipse Che with OS OAuth support on OCP 4.4 - tests failed because of issue "Workspace start failed on OCP because it was unable to perform mkdir command"

Eclipse Che 7.14.1 wasn't tested on minikube with HELM and OLM installers.

[tolusha]

PRs are merged