VS Code Release 1.70

[andreafalzetti]

Endgame: microsoft/vscode#156110

Expected release date: 04/08

DRI: @mustard-mh @jeanp413
Plan:

• Create corresponding release branches for main and gp-code/main
  • Create release branch release/1.70
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.70 release/1.70
  • Create release branch gp-code/release/1.70
    • Execute the rebase from upstream: ./scripts/sync-with-upstream.sh upstream/release/1.70 gp-code/release/1.70
    • Turn off all experimental feature flags in gitpod-web
      • Ports view
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point to the release branches
  • insiders-gp.yml
  • insiders.yml
  • code-nightly.yaml
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo to generate stable image for VS Code
  • Use the template from https://gist.github.com/filiptronicek/be19dcab639a1cdf08089cc762377a41
  • Smoke test version 1.70 in VS Code Insiders
• Create and merge PR in Gitpod repo updating VS Code stable image tags to image generated in previous step
  • constants.go
• Deploy VS Code Insiders as stable
• Release OpenVSCode Server
• Port fixes from release/1.70 to main if any
• Switch nightly jobs in https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-releases and Gitpod Code-Nightly GitHub actions to point back to main and gp-code/main branch
• Monitor for recovery releases and provide corresponding release in Gitpod and OpenVSCode if necessary

[mustard-mh]

I'd like to release openvscode-server but there are some things that block the process

• test-web-integration stuck without logs
• parts of smoke tests failed smoke-test-runner.log

I'll start another workspace and try it again

[mustard-mh]

Following the steps that JP told me in the meeting works well [1] 👍 I should update our doc

I'm going to release openvscode-server

git clean -xdf
yarn && yarn watch

# test
yarn --cwd test/integration/browser compile
./scripts/test-web-integration.sh --browser chromium

# smoke test
yarn --cwd ./test/smoke compile
yarn smoketest-no-compile --web --headless --electronArgs="--disable-dev-shm-usage"