Proposal for Notation patch release

[yizha1]

Here is the proposal for Notation patch release including notation-core-go v1.0.3, notation-go v1.1.1 and notation v1.1.1.

Target date:

May 31 2024 (Code freeze on May 24, and release process will start on May 27)

Scope:

• Dependencies updates
• Bug fixes
• Error message improvements
  • fix: error message for trust policy #933
  • doc: add Notation CLI Error Handling and Message Guideline #834
  • Plugin error messages not straightforward for users notation-go#404

[FeynmanZhou]

OCI Spec v1.1 support #916 has been merged into main last month. Should we consider this enhancement as a part of v1.1.1?

[yizha1]

Here is the updated plan for patch release and I would like to propose additional notation v1.2.0-alpha.1 release for OCI 1.1 support.

Releases before end of May 2024

Release driver: @Two-Hearts and @yizha1

Require @priteshbandi support on reviewing and approving release PRs next week.

notation-core-go v1.0.3

notation-go v1.1.1

Release process:

1. Check out release-1.1 based on main
2. On release-1.1, revert PR #379
3. Release v1.1.1 on release-1.1 branch

Alternatively,

1. Check out release-1.1 based on v1.1.0
2. Cherry pick or backport non-feature commits from main to release-1.1
3. Release v1.1.1 on release-1.1 branch

notation v1.1.1

Release process:

1. Bump up notation-go to v1.1.1 on main
2. Check out release-1.1 based on v1.1.0
3. Cherry pick or backport non-feature commits from main to release-1.1
4. Release v1.1.1 on release-1.1 branch

notation v1.2.0-alpha.1 - With OCI 1.1

Release process:

1. Bump up notation-go to the lastest commit on main branch
2. Release v1.2.0-alpha.1 based on main branch

Milestones to notation v1.2.0 stable release

• notation v1.2.0-beta.1 / notation v1.2.0-beta.2 with Blob Sign, Timestamping
• notation v1.2.0-rc.1 - General testing
• notation v1.2.0 - Stable version

Tag for comments: @notaryproject/notaryproject-org-maintainers @vaninrao10 @priteshbandi @FeynmanZhou @JeyJeyGao

[FeynmanZhou]

LGTM. I will create a new branch for Notation v1.2.0 in the website repository soon.

Closing as the releases have been completed.