Improve release workflow

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
macos

Research direction

Start by reviewing the CI release workflow and the existing script used for Apple and GPG signing. Check whether the Apple developer certificate can be moved to the Foundation's Mac Mini, then document the remaining manual release steps in a checklist; done means the process is less dependent on one person and the checklist covers non-automated work.

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Description

There are two main things for Microkit as part of the release:

  • producing the SDKs (and signing them on macOS)
  • updating projects (mainly the seL4 docs site and Microkit tutorial).

With the last release the SDKs are produced all by CI, I then download them and then do the Apple code-signing and then the GPG signing. I have a script to do it so it only takes a couple seconds but still, it's a manual process. The main issue is that the Apple code-signing requires an Apple account that is associated with me/my local macOS machine.

Solving this issue should:

  1. See if it's possible to move the Apple developer certificate to the Foundation's Mac Mini, and do that instead to make the process less dependent on me.
  2. Write a release checklist for all the things that cannot be automated.
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