# Omnibus-gitlab release process

Our main goal is to make it clear which version of GitLab is in an omnibus package.

## On your development machine

- Pick a tag of GitLab to package (e.g. `v6.6.0`).
- Create a release branch in omnibus-gitlab (e.g. `6-6-stable`).
- Change [the gitlab-rails version in omnibus-gitlab].
  In our example that would be `version "v6.6.0"`.
- Commit the new version to the release branch

```shell
git commit -m 'Pin GitLab to v6.6.0' config/software/gitlab-rails.rb
```

- Create an annotated tag on omnibus-gitlab corresponding to the GitLab tag.
  GitLab tag `v6.6.0` becomes omnibus-gitlab tag `6.6.0.omnibus`.

```shell
git tag -a 6.6.0.omnibus -m 'Pin GitLab to v6.6.0'
```

- Push the branch and the tag to the main repository.

```shell
git push origin 6-6-stable 6.6.0.omnibus
```

## On the build machines

### One-time

- Set up the `attach.sh` script

```shell
sudo su - omnibus-build
cat > attach.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
script -c 'screen -x || screen' /dev/null
EOF
chmod +x attach.sh
```

- Install release dependencies

```shell
# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-pip

# CentOS
sudo yum install python-pip

# Both
sudo pip install awscli
aws configure # enter AWS key and secret
```

- Set up a deploy key to fetch the GitLab EE source code.

### Each build

- Log in as the build user and start a screen session

```shell
sudo su - omnibus-build
./attach.sh
```

- Check out the release tag of omnibus-gitlab.

```shell
cd ~/omnibus-gitlab
git fetch
git checkout 6.6.0.my-tag
```

- Check the system time; the S3 upload will fail if it is off by too much

```shell
date
```

You can adjust the time with the `date` command if necessary.

- Start the release script

```shell
./release.sh
```

This will `clean --purge` the build environment, build a package and upload it to S3.

- Detach from screen: press Ctrl-a DD
- Check in on the build after 30 minutes.
- When the build is done, update the download page with the package URL's and MD5 hashes.

See a previous [CE example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/141)
and [EE example](https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlab-ee/commit/7301417820404f92ca7c0a9940408ef414ef3c01).

[the gitlab-rails version in omnibus-gitlab]: ../config/software/gitlab-rails.rb#L20