release Che 7.18.0

[mkuznyetsov]

List of pending issues / PRs

Release status

In series, the following will be released via che-release:

• che-theia, che-machine-exec, che-devfile registry,
• che-plugin-registry (once che-theia and machine-exec are done)
• che-parent, che-dashboard, che-workspace-loader, and che (server assembly), including release to Maven Central
• che-operator

Then, these steps will be done, which still require some manual intervention (PR verification is not yet automated):

• generation of OperatorHub PRs
• chectl

• che-theia, che-machine-exec, che-devfile-registry, che-plugin-registry
• che-parent, che-dashboard, che-workspace-loader, che
• che-operator (depends on all of the above)
  • Update eclipse-che operator for openshift to release 7.18.0 operator-framework/community-operators#2248
  • Update eclipse-che operator for kubernetes to release 7.18.0 operator-framework/community-operators#2249
• chectl (depends on all of the above)

If this is a .0 release:

• send reminder to TLs to triage unresolved issues
• complete current milestone
  • move incomplete deferred issues to backlog
  • move incomplete WIP issues to next milestone
  • close completed issues
  • close milestone

Owner	Process	Script	CI	Artifact(s) + Container(s)
@mkuznyetsov	che-theia	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-theia
@mkuznyetsov	che-machine-exec	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-machine-exec
@mkuznyetsov	che-plugin-registry	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-plugin-registry
@mkuznyetsov	che-devfile-registry	cico_release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-devfile-registry
@mkuznyetsov	che-parent	cico_release.sh	centos	che-parent
@mkuznyetsov	che-dashboard	cico_release.sh	centos	che-dashboard
@mkuznyetsov	che-workspace-loader	cico_release.sh	centos	che-workspace-loader
@mkuznyetsov	che	cico_release.sh	centos	che.core, eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-endpoint-watcher, eclipse/che-keycloak, eclipse/che-postgres, eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-e2e
@tolusha	che-operator	make-release.sh	centos	eclipse/che-operator
@tolusha	chectl	make-release.sh	travis	chectl releases

[mkuznyetsov]

release is complete, operator community PRs are created