[Incubator] Software Release Processes [was: FW: [rasdaman-dev] release candidate 1 almost there] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Jody Garnett
jody.garnett at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 00:27:19 PST 2013
We recently moved to a more automated release process for GeoTools:
- http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/procedures/release.html
A build box hosts a release script, that does the command line build, tagging, calling into bug trackers via REST and so on …
For reference here is the earlier manual process:
- https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/8.x/docs/developer/procedures/release.rst
One feature of these instructions is ready to go announcements along with the mailing lists and websites to notify.
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Jody Garnett
On Monday, 25 February 2013 at 12:33 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Software Release Processes [was: FW: [rasdaman-dev] release candidate 1 almost there] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] I’m looking for a few good examples of a well bedded down software release process that works well within an OSGeo Open Source community.
>
> I’d like to refer these to the Rasdaman community for consideration, rather than re-inventing the wheel.
>
> The environment appears to be mainly Postgres, SQL, C, shell, git and trac (Peter B, please add to this if required).
>
> Bruce
>
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> > From: Peter Baumann <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>
> > Reply-To: <rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:08:16 +1100
> > To: <rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>
> > Cc: Bruce Bannerman <B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au>, "Beccati, Alan" <a.beccati at jacobs-university.de>
> > Subject: Re: [rasdaman-dev] release candidate 1 almost there [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> >
>
> >
> > indeed, having some project that OSGeo sees as a role model should be interesting for us.
> > -Peter
> >
> >
> > On 02/21/2013 10:42 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Re: [rasdaman-dev] release candidate 1 almost there [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Thanks for picking this up Stephan.
> > >
> > > You have raised a very good point here.
> > >
> > > Is there a process that has been utilised by other OSGeo Projects that we could possibly adapt?
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > >
> > > On 22/02/13 6:11 AM, "Peter Baumann" <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Agreed, we have to accommodate ourselves (and most of all myself) to a more
> > > > accurate wording. It's a little bit of terminology issue: without using the
> > > > wording, the earlier announcement meant feature freeze for 8.4, and now rc1 is
> > > > rolling out. Has been thoroughly tested at two sites, BTW.
> > > > HTH,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 02/21/2013 03:56 PM, Beccati, Alan wrote:
> > > > > Hi Stephan,
> > > > >
> > > > > The release procedure is still under work but it will finally follow the lines of many other projects out there, just getting there progressively as resources allow. I am very favorable to implement a release line approach where we can have parallel dev and release branches but it requires infrastructure updates so not that short term change unfortunately.
> > > > >
> > > > > At the moment we try keep a short release cycle (while getting to a suitable branching model that fits in the project infrastructure), hence no beta (the git tree was our beta up to now).
> > > > > There should be no features coming up that I am aware of in the short term hence no feature freeze, unless you have some pending patch to submit (which will get approved after release then).
> > > > >
> > > > > Open tickets look not critical to core functionality and should be moved to the next release (probably 8.0.1 then since these are not new features anyway).
> > > > >
> > > > > Best,
> > > > > Alan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ________________________________________
> > > > > From: rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com [rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com] on behalf of Stephan Meißl [stephan.meissl at eox.at]
> > > > > Sent: 21 February 2013 11:59
> > > > > To: rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com
> > > > > Subject: Re: [rasdaman-dev] release candidate 1 almost there
> > > > >
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> > > > > Alan,
> > > > >
> > > > > great to see the project progressing nicely. However, I have some
> > > > > questions from my limited point of view. Btw. I was looking for a
> > > > > description of the release procedure which might answer my questions
> > > > > but didn't find something (at least not in the wiki). Do you maybe
> > > > > have a pointer for me? Thanks. Anyway here are my questions
> > > > >
> > > > > You're talking about a release candidate. I was wondering if I missed
> > > > > any beta as well as a feature freeze for this version?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd add the creation of a 8.4 branch in your list. Branching at the
> > > > > beginning of the release procedure seems to be good practice in all
> > > > > projects I know allowing new features to be added to master even
> > > > > through the release period. Alternatively this could be done with the
> > > > > final release but this would mean to ensure that no new features are
> > > > > added to master during the release period.
> > > > >
> > > > > The roadmap for 8.4 currently has 27 open tickets. I understand that
> > > > > some of them will be closed with the pending patches but what is the
> > > > > planning for the remaining ones?
> > > > >
> > > > > cu
> > > > > Stephan
> > > > >
> > > > > [1]
> > > > > http://rasdaman.eecs.jacobs-university.de/trac/rasdaman/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=accepted&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=8.4
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 02/21/2013 10:50 AM, Beccati, Alan wrote:
> > > > >> It seems we ave a consistent set of changes to make a release
> > > > >> candidate now, I'd suggest to announce that on the users list as
> > > > >> soon as the pending patches are applied (we have also 2 pending by
> > > > >> Piero last week 2013-02-11 and an expected one following their
> > > > >> application).
> > > > >>
> > > > >> 0 - apply pending patches 1 - Check build status for green light 2
> > > > >> - mark the commit id where the patches are applied as RC1 on
> > > > >> download page and provide related RPM package with version
> > > > >> 8.4.0-rc1
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> We also have to make prominent notice on the download page that
> > > > >> only RPM / source tarballs belong to the "stable" domain, whereas
> > > > >> git download have also experimental features.
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