Story (Required)

This is a story to track all the release activities. The owner of the story should act as a release manager and drive the release.

Background (Required)

Patch release for v1.9.1

Out of scope

Fixing the issues for v1.9.1

Approach (Required)

Use https://spaces.redhat.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=133570094  for instructions

Dependencies

https://issues.redhat.com/projects/GITOPS/versions/12407286 

Acceptance Criteria (Mandatory)

See the Release Manager Guide for more information

• Complete Prerequisites (if necessary)
• Make a story in JIRA for tracking release activities (see below)
• Create a new errata advisory
• Update Component Matrix in Confluence
• Create the build pipeline
• Update Argo CD version in argocd-operator repo (if necessary), i.e. if argocd version upgrade
• Update gitops-operator repo (if necessary), i.e. if argocd-operator or argocd version in argocd-operator was upgraded
• Trigger build
• Sanity Checks
• Attach builds to the errata release advisory
• Attach Jira issues to the errata release advisory
• Move the advisories into QE state & get QE Approval
• Get docs team approval on advisories
• Tag release branches in midstream and gitops-operator repose
• Get the binaries signed (if there is an RPM (KAM) advisory)

Done Checklist

• Acceptance criteria checklist items are all done