I wrote an article at LinkedIN pulse about the release process and the tool: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/releasing-lucene-just-61-steps-jan-høydahl/
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 11. jun. 2019 kl. 10:46 skrev Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com>: > > I have now pushed the ReleaseWizard tool in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8852 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8852> > Appreciate all kind of feedback! > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/> > >> 1. jun. 2019 kl. 20:26 skrev Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com >> <mailto:jan....@cominvent.com>>: >> >> As I said, I’ll start a thread about this, please reply to that instead of >> continuing discussion in this thread which is about releaseWizard :) >> >> Jan Høydahl >> >> 1. jun. 2019 kl. 15:53 skrev Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com >> <mailto:msoko...@gmail.com>>: >> >>> I'm not sure what the proper way to use fix version is. Suppose you back >>> port a fix to multiple branches? Should fixVersion list all of them? Just >>> pick one? >>> >>> On Wed, May 29, 2019, 6:00 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com >>> <mailto:jan....@cominvent.com>> wrote: >>> My releaseWizard tool is getting more complete as the 7.7.2 release >>> progresses. Will share the code just after I complete all steps. >>> >>> I tested relasedocmaker and it digs up all the JIRA issues marked as >>> RESOLVED for the version and creates two files. >>> CHANGELOG.md simply lists all issues under headings IMPROVEMENTS, BUG FIXES >>> etc >>> One problem I found with how the CHANGELOG works is that it adds all issues >>> having the version in fixVersion, even if the feature >>> was already released in an earlier version. That is because of the way we >>> use JIRA fixVersion, adding both e.g. "master (9.0)" and "8.2" >>> at the same time, even if we know that 8.2 is the version the feature will >>> be released. If we stop always adding "master" to fixVersion >>> but strive to keep it a list of version the feature/bugfix is FIRST >>> introduced, then this tool will do the correct job. >>> >>> RELEASENOTES.md lists "...new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, >>> important issues, features, and major improvements.". >>> And if we enable the JIRA field "Release Notes" (we don't have it now), the >>> content of that field will be used in the release notes instead of the JIRA >>> description. >>> You can select any issue to surface in RELEASENOTES by adding a certain >>> label, by default "backward-incompatible". >>> >>> I think it could be a welcome addition to our flow. We cant' expect the >>> output from the tool to be used as-is, sometimes a major feature spans >>> multiple >>> JIRAs etc, but it could be a good starting point, and would shift the >>> burden of documenting important and breaking changes from release-time to >>> commit-time, >>> if we as committers manage to adjust our routines. We could even have a >>> weekly job that runs the releasedocmaker and sends the output to dev@ list >>> for active branches, to keep focus. >>> >>> -- >>> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >>> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/> >>> >>>> 17. mai 2019 kl. 13:45 skrev Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com >>>> <mailto:jan....@cominvent.com>>: >>>> >>>> Yes, I thought we could use >>>> https://yetus.apache.org/documentation/0.10.0/releasedocmaker/ >>>> <https://yetus.apache.org/documentation/0.10.0/releasedocmaker/> to >>>> generate the draft, and this could be wired into the releaseWizard tool. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >>>> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/> >>>> >>>>> 17. mai 2019 kl. 06:40 skrev Ishan Chattopadhyaya >>>>> <ichattopadhy...@gmail.com <mailto:ichattopadhy...@gmail.com>>: >>>>> >>>>> Much needed. Thanks for working on it. >>>>> >>>>> Here's an idea I was thinking about yesterday: the most tedious step is >>>>> to generate release highlights. We should have a JIRA field "release >>>>> highlight" which, when populated, will have the text that will be >>>>> featured in the announce mail and on the website in news. That way, >>>>> generating those mails can be semi/fully automated. >>>>> >>>>> Alternatively, this field can just be a Boolean check box and title of >>>>> the Jira can be used as highlight. This will force the committer to keep >>>>> meaningful titles. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, 16 May, 2019, 10:58 PM Jan Høydahl, <jan....@cominvent.com >>>>> <mailto:jan....@cominvent.com>> wrote: >>>>> Just a heads-up that as part of my releasing 7.7.2 effort I'm also >>>>> hacking on >>>>> a releaseWizard script to replace the ReleaseTodo wiki page. It will act >>>>> as a >>>>> checklist where you see tasks that needs to be done (different for >>>>> major/minor/bug) >>>>> and mark those completed. It will also run all the commands for you and >>>>> preserve >>>>> the logs, generate e-mail templates with all versions, dates etc in >>>>> place, handle >>>>> voting rules and counting etc. It will also generate an asciidoc + HTML >>>>> page that >>>>> gives a nice overview of the whole thing :) >>>>> >>>>> Here's a teaser: >>>>> >>>>> https://asciinema.org/a/246656 <https://asciinema.org/a/246656> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ Releasing Lucene/Solr 7.7.2 RC1 >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ Please complete the below checklist (Complete: 4/11) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 1 - ✓ Prerequisites (3/3) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 2 - ✓ Work with the community to decide when and how etc (1/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 3 - ✓ Create branch (if needed) and update versions (4/4) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 4 - ✓ Add new versions to JIRA (2/2) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 5 - Build the release artifacts (2/3) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 6 - Hold the vote and sum up the results (0/2) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 7 - Publish the release artifacts (0/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 8 - Update the website (0/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 9 - Update the DOAP file (0/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 10 - Announce the release (0/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 11 - Tasks to do after release (0/1) >>>>> │ >>>>> │ 12 - Exit >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> │ >>>>> >>>>> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >>>>> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com <http://www.cominvent.com/> >>>>> >>>> >>> >
