K8s 1.12 Release Update #5

[Timothy Pepper]

The freeze is here.  We’ve entered 1.12 code freeze as of 5pm Pacific today Sept. 4, 2018.  And beta.1 announce is probably racing this email through the ether.

 

A small heads up on freeze: today the code freeze is implemented in the submit queue, but we hope to shift to the new and shiny tide implementation in the next week.  A change in user experience might be perceived through this transition, but we expectation that user/GitHub/Tide interactions will be more consistent and intuitive going forward and you’ll be happier for it.

 

Release target remains Sept. 25, which is three weeks away.  If we have stabilization, master branch will re-open for 1.13 development in just two weeks’ time.

 

Right now that looks like a large “if”.  While a distracting amount of test issues have been GCE/GKE specific cases in the past weeks, and even given Google’s awesome commitment to the CNCF announced last week to better enable community driven testing on community managed test infrastructure resources, we as a community have a long way to go over the coming months and releases to broaden test automation and get better A/B quality signal across use cases across cloud providers.  Within this we are today encountering and needing fixing on what do end up being core issues, so we do continue to need SIG attention triaging daily new test failures across sig-release-1.12-all,  sig-release-1.12-blocking,  sig-release-master-blocking, and sig-release-master-upgrade, even when the test buckets have a ‘G’ in front of their name.

 

Similarly the release team needs SIG leadership to diligently be marking in GitHub both issues and PRs with SIG, kind, priority and milestone.  And regularly update status.  Where help is needed we can rally it, but we need visibility.

 

Documentation PRs are expected in a merge ready state by Sept. 18 at the LATEST.

 

Release notes will see increased activity this week and next, and hopefully folks find this release’s trial of hack.md more efficient than past workflows.

 

More links and timeline details at https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.12/README.md

 

 

 

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Tim Pepper

Orchestration & Containers Lead

VMware Open Source Technology Center

 

 

 

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Tim Pepper

Orchestration & Containers Lead

VMware Open Source Technology Center