Fedora Release (Modern)

Introduction

This assume you have a working setup already. See the other documents (e.g. the one using Docker to get a development environment working) to get set up. Also, if using a container-based environment, ensure that the image you’re using reflects the latest Dockerfile in the root of the repository.

This document guides you through updating the websites for a release (beta or GA) of Fedora.

Most of the work comes down to editing one file, sites/getfedora.org/release.yaml. What follows are the important points to note.

The release.yaml file is broken into several main sections, and the relevant ones are ga, beta, fmw, and gpg_keys.

Pushing to the staging branch will update https://stg.getfedora.org/, which pushing to the master branch will update https://getfedora.org/.

Beta Releases

If you are updating for a beta release, then you are free to leave the ga section alone.

In the beta section, you’ll want show to be true. This toggles whether we show the beta download links at all. It also changes the banner at the top of the website to announce the beta instead of the previous GA release. The announcement_release_number dictates which version number is shown in that announcement, so you’ll want to bump it to the beta version being released.

Next you’ll want to edit the editions section, still under the beta parent section. Bump the release_number and set the rc_version to the RC that was called gold/ready for release. Find this information out from releng, if necessary.

GA Releases

If you are updating for a ga release, then in the beta section, set show to false, so that the beta downloads don’t show, and the announcement at the top of the landing site reflects the new GA. Check with someone (usually Paul Frields (stickster on IRC) to find the URL of the Fedora Magazine announcement for the release, and set announcement_url to that, in the ga section.

Next, bump the release_number and rc_version of each edition under editions, using the rc_version that was declared gold/ready for release. Find this information out from releng, if necessary.

`releases.json` file

The next step is to produce the releases.json static file used by Fedora Media Writer to produce its list of possible downloads. In the fmw section of release.yaml, update the releases_json list to include the current non-EOL versions of Fedora, including any current betas. If a version is in beta, set the its milestone to beta. Otherwise set it to final or leave out the field altogether.

For example:

fmw:
  ...
  releases_json:
    - version: 31
      milestone: beta
    - version: 30
    - version: 29

Once this is done, you’ll need to actually generate the releases.json file.

If using a containerized environment, you can do this from the root of the repository (replacing sudo docker with podman if you use Podman):

sudo docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/opt/:z" fedora-websites python ./scripts/releases-json.py > sites/getfedora.org/static/releases.json

Otherwise, if you’re not using a containerized environment, you can run the script yourself after installing the python-fedfind package. From the root of the repository:

python3 sites/getfedora.org/scripts/releases-json.py > sites/getfedora.org/static/releases.json

Check that releases.json looks sane (it should look like a blob of JSON), then move on.

Checksum Files

You’ll need to import the checksum files into sites/getfedora.org/static/checksums/. To find out which checksums you need to import, you can simply do a build of getfedora.org, and it will error out and tell you what is missing. This is by design to ensure we don’t miss a checksum file.

GPG Keys

Lastly, you’ll want to add the latest GPG key information to gpg_keys in release.yaml. Follow the pattern that is already there, and move any now-EOL releases into the obsolete subsection.

Import any new GPG keys into sites/getfedora.org/static/keys/, naming the file [short key id].txt e.g. 57BBCCBA.txt.

Conclusion

That should be all. The old sites (namely spins, labs, alt, arm) which haven’t been ported to the new system need to be updated separately and are beyond the scope of this document.

Commit your changes, and they should auto-deploy within two hours at most.

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