Cut v1.31.0-alpha.1 release

[mehabhalodiya]

Cut v1.31.0-alpha.1 release

[k8s-ci-robot]

@mehabhalodiya: You must be a member of the kubernetes/milestone-maintainers GitHub team to set the milestone. If you believe you should be able to issue the /milestone command, please contact your Milestone Maintainers Team and have them propose you as an additional delegate for this responsibility.

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Scheduled to happen: Tuesday, 2024-05-04

Note for v1.x.0 releases: Having this issue in open state will stop the
periodic run of krel fast-forward
to avoid conflicts with releases running in parallel. The fast-forward will
automatically stop once the v1.x.0 tag is available.

Release Blocking Issues

Refer to the slack thread: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CJH2GBF7Y/p1717404704745279

Release Steps

• Create a thread on #release-management:
• Screenshot unhealthy release branch testgrid boards
• Check the health of the publishing-bot
• Mock Run
• Stage
• Release
• NoMock Run
• Stage
• Image Promotion:
• Release
• Notify #release-management:
• Send notification:
• Update schedule.yaml file with the latest release using schedule-builder
• Collect metrics and add them to the Release steps table below

Release Tools Version

GitVersion:    vM.m.p
GitCommit:     191ddd0b0b49af1adb04a98e45cebdd36cae9307
GitTreeState:  clean
BuildDate:     YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ
GoVersion:     go1.16.3
Compiler:      gc
Platform:      linux/amd64

Release Jobs History

Step	Command	Link	Start	Duration	Succeeded?
Mock stage	krel stage [arguments]
Mock release	krel release [arguments]
Stage	krel stage [arguments]
Release	krel release [arguments]

Action Items

Open Questions

/milestone
/assign
/cc @kubernetes/release-managers
/priority important-soon
/kind documentation

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[mehabhalodiya]

/milestone v1.31

[k8s-ci-robot]

@mehabhalodiya: You must be a member of the kubernetes/milestone-maintainers GitHub team to set the milestone. If you believe you should be able to issue the /milestone command, please contact your Milestone Maintainers Team and have them propose you as an additional delegate for this responsibility.

In response to this:

/milestone v1.31

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[mehabhalodiya]

Testgrid dashboards for master

Boards checked for FAILING:

• sig-release-master-blocking
• sig-release-master-informing

No FAILING Jobs

comment generated by krel

[puerco]

/assign @mehabhalodiya

[mehabhalodiya]

The release is done! So closing this issue.

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@mehabhalodiya: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

The release is done! So closing this issue.

/close

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