SimplifiedReleaseProcedure

Simplified Release Procedure for 2012 and later

The procedure has been used for all releases since 2.2.0.

Prepare Binaries and Doc

• validate and update all documentation files by calling: txt python bin/docs-update-generated.py python bin/docs-validate.py python bin/docs-create-example-outputs.py , then check all diffs for the files in docs/generated/*.
• Commit the auto-generated doc changes to current branch ("Regenerated docs for X.Y.Z release.")
• 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.
• edit debian/changelog. Be careful of formatting here, it gets machine-parsed.
• 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.)
• 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 X.Y.Z mysfusername 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: [[!table header="no" class="mointable" data=""" 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) """]]

• Commit the above changes to hg and push.

• 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, copy all the changes from the release branch back to the default branch. (XXX: then why do we have the release branch??) * hg diff -r default:X.Y.Z | patch -p1
• On default branch, run python bin/update-release-info.py post to go back to develop mode.
• 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)