Release Che 7.29.0

[mkuznyetsov]

List of pending issues / PRs

• description #xxx https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/xxx
• Remove Che parent & server maven artifacts from release process (stop pushing to Maven Central) Stop publishing Che parent and Che server artifacts to Maven Central #18941
• Update README.md and RELEASE.md Update README.md and RELEASE.md #19560

Release status

The following will be released via che-release according to a series of phases:

1. che-machine-exec, che-theia, che-devfile-registry, che-dashboard, devworkspace-operator, jwtproxy, kubernetes image puller
2. che-plugin-registry (once che-theia and machine-exec are done)
3. che-parent and che server
4. devworkspace-che-operator
5. che-operator

Each phase will send a Mattermost notification to the Eclipse Che releases channel.

Then, these steps will be done, once the above projects are released and PRs are merged:

• chectl (depends on che-operator)
• Che community operator PRs (depends on che-operator)
• che-docs PR (depends on che-operator)

If this is a .0 release:

• complete current milestone
  • move incomplete deferred issues to backlog
  • move incomplete WIP issues to next milestone
  • close completed issues
  • close milestone

Process [1]	Script	Action	Container(s) + Artifact(s)
che-release	cico_release.sh	Action	n/a
che-theia	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-theia
che-machine-exec	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-machine-exec
che-devfile-registry	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-devfile-registry
che-plugin-registry	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-plugin-registry
che-parent	make-release.sh	Action	che-server [2]
che-dashboard	make-release.sh	Action	che-dashboard
che	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-endpoint-watcher, eclipse/che-keycloak, eclipse/che-postgres, eclipse/che-server, eclipse/che-e2e
devworkspace-operator (controller)	make-release.sh	Action	devfile/devworkspace-controller
devworkspace-che-operator	make-release.sh	Action	che-incubator/devworkspace-che-operator
che-operator	make-release.sh	Action	eclipse/che-operator
chectl	make-release.sh	Action	chectl releases

^[1] Overall process owner: @mkuznyetsov

[mkuznyetsov]

Release is complete