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 * You have to rename the .win32.exe to -setup.exe; the build SConstruct should be fixed to do this.  * You have to rename the scons-$VERSION.win32.exe to scons-$VERSION-setup.exe; the build SConstruct should be fixed to do this.  (Note that the upload script requires this.)

Simplified Release Procedure for 2012 and later

THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL AND STILL BEING WORKED ON, first used for 2.2.0.

Prepare Binaries and Doc

  • update CHANGES.txt (should already be up to date)
  • update Announce.txt (not for checkpoints): add section for this release, important user-visible changes only. This is really long since it also has old releases. Is it useful?
  • update Release.txt: this gets its content *replaced* for each release. New functionality, deprecated functionality, changed functionality, and fixes. Get this from CHANGES.txt. Add new contributors to list at end.
  • NOTE: I think Announce and Release are backwards; Release should be complete release notes for all versions (latest at top) and Announce should be a short blurb of just this release. FIXME!
  • Commit this to the current branch (normally default branch in hg, unless this release is coming off a branch).

  • update ReleaseConfig and run python bin/update-release-info.py release (this modifies CHANGES, Release and Announce -- that's why you should commit the above first.)

  • edit debian/changelog. Be careful of formatting here, it gets machine-parsed.

  • build packages and doc: python bootstrap.py >& build-XYZ.log (good idea to save build logfile somewhere)

  • test them: python runtest.py -a (Q: aren't there special tests to test the unpacked installers?)

You should now have the following in build/dist: 

  scons-$VERSION-1.noarch.rpm
  scons-$VERSION-1.src.rpm
  scons-$VERSION.linux-x86_64.tar.gz
  scons-$VERSION.linux-x86_64.zip
  scons-$VERSION.tar.gz
  scons-$VERSION.win32.exe
  scons-$VERSION.zip
  scons-doc-$VERSION.tar.gz
  scons-local-$VERSION.tar.gz
  scons-local-$VERSION.zip
  scons-src-$VERSION.tar.gz
  scons-src-$VERSION.zip

The .linux-x86_64 ones are not needed and may be deleted; the others all get uploaded to SF.

  • You have to rename the scons-$VERSION.win32.exe to scons-$VERSION-setup.exe; the build SConstruct should be fixed to do this. (Note that the upload script requires this.)

Tag Release in Mercurial

  • commit the changes made by update-release-info.py onto a release branch: 

   hg branch rel_<NAME>
   hg commit (message: final auto updates for x.y.z release)
   hg tag <NAME> (e.g. 2.2.0)

Upload Software and Doc

  • There is now a shell script to do this: bin/upload-release-files.sh as long as SourceForge and scons.org have your ssh pub key and you're using SSH Agent Forwarding.

  • It uploads all the packages to SF, uploads the doc to scons.org, unpacks it, and updates the doc symlinks.
  • You may still have to tell SF that the new release dirs exist in its File Manager (it's a bit buggy).

Prepare Announcement and announce to all

  • Use Announce.txt and/or Release.txt as blurb
  • Update scons.org. Much of the hard work is already done by the script. You just have to manually edit these files in public_html/production:

includes/versions.php

update $latestrelease, update $docversions[] and $apiversions[] list

index.php

add an announcement for the home page
remove any out-of-date announcements

news-raw.xhtml

add an announcement to the list (duplicate it from what you just added to index.php)

  • Update Sourceforge:
    • set default downloads for each win/linux/mac etc. appropriately, using the "info" link on the right of each download.
  • Update Tigris:

    • check out tigris website: svn checkout http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/ scons-tigris --username USERNAME

    • Then edit the trunk/www/project-highlights and trunk/www/roadmap.html pages and svn commit. That will make them live.
    • Manually add a new Announcement: log in to the site, then upper left Announcements, then in there Add New Announcement.
    • Add version to issue tracker: Issue Tracker, Configuration, Add/Edit, Add new version.
  • Announce to scons-users and scons-dev
  • Others?

After Release

  • on default branch, run python bin/update-release-info.py develop to go back to develop mode. (Not sure if this is really needed?)

  • commit those changes after review

There is more detail on some of the steps here at http://www.scons.org/wiki/ReleaseHOWTO/TipBetaBody although that is still based on the old svn system.

It's OK to do the release-branch creation, commit and tag at the very end, just in case something goes wrong and packages need to be rebuilt.

TODO:

  • do we need both Announce.txt and RELEASE.txt? Let's optimize for what we really need.
  • research above FIXMEs

  • integrate useful parts of http://www.scons.org/wiki/ReleaseHOWTO/TipBetaBody into this page, while keeping it short and to the point.

  • make list of dependencies needed to produce release (e.g. for ubuntu: all doc tools, man2html, rpm)

ReleaseHOWTO/SimplifiedReleaseProcedure (last edited 2013-03-02 19:22:47 by GaryOberbrunner)