The section "release checklist in a more wordy way" of our Introduction to the Wikibase release pipeline is updated with a detailed explanation of the current checklist. We should keep updating it as we change our process.

As the task description suggests, the product verification sheet's federated properties tab hasn't been used for the past few releases. Moreover, it's not clear what the scenarios that were being tested are. Instead, I reviewed our automated test suite, namely item.ts and prefatching.ts.
I set up a local Wikibase instance with federated properties by manually executing the tests. They seem to adequately cover the basic usage of this feature, including:

• Creating an item and adding federated properties to it.
• Ensuring that the item's data is retrievable in json format and not in unsupported formats like TTL and RDF.
• Validating that the addition and deletion of federated properties are reflected in the item's history page and Wikibase's recent changes.

Quickstatements tests: https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/532

Special item test changes: https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/528

https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/485

Went with a simple approach of checking if an image is already loaded before loading it. This means there weren't any changes to the interaction between building and testing. We should probably revisit that depending on / as part of T345689.

https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/483

https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/pull/469

Settings are updated on Github.

Meeting Notes:

Certain points in this ticket involve rules that can be enforced through repo settings, whereas with others, we might just have a general agreement while being open to doing things differently in some cases.
I suggest we discuss the points below as they touch on our team's ways of working, and only then make the changes to the repo setting/implement changes to workflows.

In T342969#9080463, @MoritzMuehlenhoff wrote:

@adee_wmde You are using the same key to access Wikimedia Cloud Services and Wikimedia production, please generate a separate SSH key for accessing Wikimedia production and post the pubkey to your user page.

The current links seem to work.

In T342969#9072793, @fgiunchedi wrote:

In T342969#9072774, @adee_wmde wrote:

@fgiunchedi do you mean adding it on wikitech preferences? If so, then it's already there.

Production ssh keys (i.e. the one attached to this request) and wikitech (i.e. cloud/wmcs) must be different, in this case we need to verify "out of band" that the production ssh key you attached here is effectively tied to your wiki account. One easy way to do that is to add the public key to user page, for example at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adee_Ritman_(WMDE) (you can even revert the change afterwards, that's fine too)

hope that helps!

@fgiunchedi do you mean adding it on wikitech preferences? If so, then it's already there.