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How to Create a Release of OpenTelemetry Configuration (for Maintainers Only)

Tagging the Release

Our release tags follow the convention v<major>.<minor>.<patch>. For example, the v0.1.0, v0.1.1).

In this section upstream repository refers to the main opentelemetry-configuration github repository.

Before any push to the upstream repository you need to create a personal access token.

  1. Checkout main and ensure you are synchronized with main on upstream.

    git checkout main
git pull upstream main

NOTE: Your local main branch should have additional commits besides those on upstream main.

TODO: include command for ensuring local main is identical to upstream main.

  1. For vMajor.Minor.Patch tag:

    • Create and push a tag:
    MAJOR=0 MINOR=1 PATCH=0 # Set appropriately for new release
git tag -a v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH -m "Version $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"
git push upstream v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH

Patch Release

All patch releases should include only bug-fixes, and must avoid adding/modifying the public APIs. To prepare a patch follow the following instructions:

  • Checkout the tag corresponding to the version to patch (e.g. v0.1.0 if producing v0.1.1)
  • Cherry-pick the commits to include
  • Create and push new tag as described above

TODO: update to include specific commands after performing first patch release

Announcement

Once deployment is done, go to Github release page, press Draft a new release to write release notes about the new release.

You can use git log upstream/v$MAJOR.$((MINOR-1)).x..upstream/v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x --graph --first-parent or the Github compare tool to view a summary of all commits since last release as a reference.

In addition, you can refer to CHANGELOG.md for a list of major changes since last release.

Update release versions in documentations and CHANGELOG files

After releasing is done, you need to update the CHANGELOG.md, adding a heading for the release of the form ## v{Major}.{Minor}.{Patch} - YYYY-MM-DD under ## Unreleased.

Create a PR to mark the new release in CHANGELOG.md on main branch.