Feature Overview (aka. Goal Summary)

Create a reusable automation framework for the rhdh-plugins repository to streamline plugin development, testing, and release processes.

Goals

• Establish a standardized automation process for RHDH plugins
• Facilitate easier collaboration and contribution from the community
• Provide a template for other teams and customers to set up their own plugin repositories
• Ensure consistency between the community-plugins repo and rhdh-plugins repo

Requirements (aka. Acceptance Criteria):

• Extract and implement automation from the community-plugins repo to rhdh-plugins repo:
  • Create a script to copy relevant automation files from community-plugins to rhdh-plugins
  • Initial automation should include:
    • Unit tests per plugin workspace
    • realease / changeset generation
    • Renovate setup
    • version bumping
• Documentation:
  • Include detailed comments within the automation scripts
  • Generate auto-documentation from the scripts

• CI/CD Independence:
  • Where possible the automation is flexible enough to accommodate various customer environments and CI/CD systems
    • For the first iteration, we will focus on copying the GitHub Actions
    • If we create new automation, it should be designed to be environment-agnostic

• Maintainability:
  • Create a process for updating or rebasing automation when community-plugins repo is updated
  • We can start with a simple copy script to the new repo and manual review:

• • • Allows for careful examination and adaptation of automation components
    • Enables identification of RHDH-specific modifications needed
    • Eases later rebasing / updating with community-plugins repo