An accident. We also skipped 1.1.0, so I just did the same thing. allan
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 9:24 AM Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > why you start with version 1.2.1 instead 1.2.0 ? > > -Ulf > Am 08.02.23 um 02:43 schrieb m. allan noah: > > Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how > this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have > now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am going to make an executive > decision, and rip some of this out. Once I have done this (and cleaned up > the snapshot build process), I'd like to quickly release 1.2.2. Hopefully, > we can end up with a release that actually builds with a proper version > number, and without autotools being required. > > allan > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 8:18 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> On a slightly different note, perhaps we should consider doing a >> frontends release soon. >> Thierry has been working on a GTK3 port of the GUI apps in there which is >> going to become an issue shortly as some distros drop GTK2. >> >> Cheers, >> Ralph >> >> On 2023-02-07 04:48, m. allan noah wrote: >> >> This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more time fighting >> with the automation than I would have spent doing an old manual release. >> One of the steps there was simply to edit configure.ac and change the >> version number a couple of times. Seems easy enough to 'echo $new_version > >> .version' or something like that in this new scheme. I'll do some more >> research into how other projects handle this. >> >> And, I noticed the extra comments at the top of the NEWS file were being >> displayed in the release notes and manually removed that in the gitlab UI. >> >> allan >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 12:32 AM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote: >>> >>> Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix '' >>> .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems like our release process >>> might be leaving out some steps. I guess I'll dig more tomorrow. >>> >>> >>> IIRC, this has been a long-standing issue with the tar file included in >>> the GitLab release artifacts, in that they don't build. You have to instead >>> get the snapshot file. >>> I don't know how long it has been like that but we do get a complaint >>> every now again. I keep trying to remember to figure out what is going on >>> to do something about it. >>> >>> If it is the thing that I am thinking about, it might also be the thing >>> that always stuffs me up in the release PPA because the orig tar file >>> requires an extra .gitversion file with the release version in it, >>> otherwise it won't build when it is uploaded. >>> >>> We really need to get our collective heads together and fix it. I don't >>> pretend to really understand what the issue is though. Build systems aren't >>> really my thing. >>> >>> ---- >>> As an aside, the release page seems to have some weird guff from the top >>> of the NEWS file in there. Not really sure what caused that. It is some of >>> the comment material. :`( >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ralph >>> >>> allan >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:44 PM m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> So, I was able to do the release on time (after filling in a few blanks >>>> in our documentation). But I only did the website updates tonight. I seem >>>> to have run into a small problem there- when I download the release >>>> tarball, and run ./autogen.sh, i get a ./configure file which has 'UNKNOWN' >>>> as the package version number. This also happens with 1.1.1 as well. Is >>>> this happening for anyone else? >>>> >>>> allan >>>> >>>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> OK, I think I have done that. >>>>> >>>>> Because we are short on time I cut and pasted the release note >>>>> fragments from my spreadsheet into the NEWS file with Apostrophe MD file >>>>> editor and whipped them into shape manually. >>>>> First time using it and it is pretty good. Obviously, this was a >>>>> manual process, but it wasn't too onerous. >>>>> >>>>> I couldn't get the towncrier thingy to work anyway. I don't really >>>>> have much experience with python and pip. Python seems an awful lot more >>>>> complicated since the last time I used it :( >>>>> >>>>> I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your branch. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Ralph >>>>> >>>>> On 2023-02-04 18:18, m. allan noah wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Awesome, thanks! I'm working on updating doc/releases.md, which I find >>>>> to be hard to use. Maybe if you keep some notes on what you did, I can >>>>> incorporate your method instead of towncrier. >>>>> >>>>> allan >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> In this case I didn't generate the towncrier files. It's a lot of >>>>>> faff if you don't do it as you go along. >>>>>> I just put them into a spreadsheet. >>>>>> >>>>>> I will try to generate the release notes from that. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Ralph >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2023-02-04 17:57, m. allan noah wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I have pushed a branch called 'release-1.2.x'. I don't have this >>>>>> 'towncrier' thing, so maybe you can run that and merge the release notes? >>>>>> >>>>>> allan >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM m. allan noah <kitno...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take a first stab at it on the 4th, >>>>>>> and see if I can follow our current instructions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> allan >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 8:43 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> I have prepared the release notes whenever you are ready! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>> Ralph >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 2023-01-24 08:33, m. allan noah wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sounds good to me, thanks for your help. I'm traveling this week, >>>>>>>> and won't be able to work on this until the weekend. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 10:47 AM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 2023-01-01 15:54, m. allan noah wrote: >>>>>>>>> > It has been nearly a year since our last release, and there have >>>>>>>>> been >>>>>>>>> > many changes and bug fixes. I'd like to get 1.2.1 released in >>>>>>>>> early >>>>>>>>> > February. I've not done it in a few years, but I am certainly >>>>>>>>> willing >>>>>>>>> > to make the release package. >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > Any objections to a code freeze on Jan 22, and a release on Feb >>>>>>>>> 5? >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > allan >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I think if we are going for your proposed plan, then we are >>>>>>>>> official in >>>>>>>>> code freeze for 1.2.1. >>>>>>>>> If you want to proceed, I can prepare release notes. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>>> Ralph >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the >>>>>>> edge of my hand" >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the >>>>>> edge of my hand" >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge >>>>> of my hand" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge >>>> of my hand" >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge >>> of my hand" >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of >> my hand" >> >> >> > > -- > "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of > my hand" > > -- > Von meinem Seibert gesendet > > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"