Boomatang/main

[Boomatang]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Introduced a two-phase pre-release and release process with pull request review.
  • Added automated version validation and consistency checks.
  • Releases now build, tag, publish container images, and attach WASM artifacts with generated notes.
  • Image builds can be reused by other workflows with configurable references and tags.
• Documentation
  • Updated release guidance with quick-start, standard, patch-release, configuration, and artifact details.
• Chores
  • Removed obsolete automated and sector release workflows.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 0528f42 and 5a5efc6.

📒 Files selected for processing (15)

• .github/actions/install-yq/action.yaml
• .github/actions/prepare-release/action.yaml
• .github/scripts/README.md
• .github/scripts/check-versions.sh
• .github/scripts/parse-version.sh
• .github/scripts/sync-release-yaml.sh
• .github/scripts/validate-release-yaml.sh
• .github/workflows/automated-release.yaml
• .github/workflows/build-image.yaml
• .github/workflows/pre-release.yaml
• .github/workflows/release.yaml
• .github/workflows/sector-release.yaml
• .github/workflows/version-gate.yaml
• RELEASE.md
• release.yaml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR replaces the former release automation with a two-phase process using release.yaml, version synchronisation and validation scripts, pre-release and release workflows, reusable image builds, and updated release documentation.

Changes

Release automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Version metadata and validation .github/scripts/*, .github/actions/install-yq/action.yaml, release.yaml	Adds the wasm-shim release version contract, yq installation, synchronisation, parsing, consistency, and dependency-release validation scripts with documentation.
Pre-release preparation .github/actions/prepare-release/action.yaml, .github/workflows/pre-release.yaml	Synchronises release.yaml, creates release branches, prepares changes, opens the release PR, and opens a follow-up development-version PR.
Release validation and publication .github/workflows/version-gate.yaml, .github/workflows/release.yaml	Adds pull-request version gates and restructures release execution into validation, smoke tests, tagging, WASM packaging, image building, and GitHub release publication.
Reusable image build interface .github/workflows/build-image.yaml	Adds reusable workflow inputs and secrets, configurable registry organisation, input-based image tags, and checked-out commit SHA handling.
Release process documentation RELEASE.md	Documents the two-phase release flow, version rules, branch procedures, configuration, and involved repository files.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Possibly related issues

• Adopt RFC 0018 release branch naming (release-X.Y) across all repos kuadrant-operator#1981 — Covers the release-X.Y branch naming changes implemented across the release workflows, scripts, and documentation.

Possibly related PRs

• Kuadrant/wasm-shim#324 — Introduces the earlier automated-release workflow that this PR replaces.
• Kuadrant/wasm-shim#339 — Establishes the release-X.Y branch naming convention used here.
• Kuadrant/wasm-shim#390 — Directly overlaps with the RFC 0020 release workflow and release.yaml changes.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: adam-cattermole

Poem

A rabbit hops through branches bright,
Syncing versions left and right.
Tags grow ears, releases gleam,
WASM sails downstream the stream.
“Hop to production!” sings the team.

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• Create PR with unit tests

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