3.17.0 release tracking

[ElectreAAS]

pre-branch blockers

(none)

known blockers

• All 3.17 changelogs merged chore: changelog for 3.17.0~alpha0 #11144
• test mirage (GitHub Worfkow)
• test nix-overlays dune 3.17 branch nix-ocaml/nix-overlays#1781
• Wait for the CI of the opam-repository alpha0 PR

release

• open then merge opam-repository PR
• triage
• update nix-overlays PR

post-release

• merge changelog
• ocaml.org changelog
• discuss post
• close tracking issue

[anmonteiro]

opened a new overlays check at nix-ocaml/nix-overlays#1781 with the latest commit from main, d2ddc43

[maiste]

I opened the alpha0 PR on opam.

[shonfeder]

Last time we learned that it would save time if we had a list of all the revdeps failures from the previous release. So we saved them here: ocaml/opam-repository#26816 (comment)

Until we have this automated somehow, I suggest updating the release plan to include saving these results at the end of the process and then referring back to them when evaluating the opam ci results.

[maiste]

Indeed, good idea! How do you back up them? Do you just copy the CI page, or is there a way in the CI to download them?

[shonfeder]

I just did this the stupidest possible way last time, and manually copied from the CI page.