"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."
Lemma: Things take longer and become buggy if you try to automate them. :-) Thank you for your contributions! Cheers luja On February 7, 2023 1:48:43 PM GMT+01:00, "m. allan noah" <kitno...@gmail.com> 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" -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
