[geeklog-devel] More automation (was: Feature freeze)

[Tom]

Thanks for this Dirk.  

After the release of 1.8.0 I was going to ask if you could write down the
process of releasing a version of Geeklog. Everything from what one needs to
consider before releasing a new version to the actual process and what
should be done in the repository, etc...

Looks like you are a step ahead of me :-)

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
Sent: May-08-11 2:08 PM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: [geeklog-devel] More automation (was: Feature freeze)

> Success: The "nightly" tarball is now created every hour (assuming there
were changes) via Jenkins.

And to further automate things, the release tarball for 1.8.0rc1 was now
also created automatically by a Jenkins job.

  http://project.geeklog.net:8080/job/geeklog-release/

The idea is to allow others to roll out a Geeklog release if necessary. The
new Jenkins job checks for any new tags that start with "geeklog_". So
simply tagging a version, e.g.

  hg tag -r 8272 geeklog_1_8_0rc1

triggers the creation of a tarball geeklog-1.8.0rc1.tar.gz, which then also
ends up in a predefined directory on www.geeklog.net. The next step would be
to add that file to the submission queue of the File Management plugin
automatically so that it doesn't require any access to the file system on
the server. Maybe in time for the official 1.8.0 release ...

Okay, so there's some fine tuning left to be done. Part of the release
tarball is the changed-files text file that lists the files that changed
since the previous version. Figuring out what the "previous version"
actually is would probably fail right now if we had to do, say, a 1.7.2sr1
tomorrow. It also assumes that the tarball for the previous version is
available (which currently isn't). I'll work on those.

Anyway, I hope the general idea is clear? Feedback welcome.

bye, Dirk

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