Nice Jan! Maybe I'll be an RM one day, now that there's a nice tool to help :-)
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:53 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > 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 > Appreciate all kind of feedback! > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > 1. jun. 2019 kl. 20:26 skrev Jan Høydahl <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>: > > 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> 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 >> >> 17. mai 2019 kl. 13:45 skrev Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com>: >> >> Yes, I thought we could use >> 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 >> >> 17. mai 2019 kl. 06:40 skrev Ishan Chattopadhyaya < >> 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> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ >>> │ >>> │ >>> │ 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 >>> >>> >> >> > >
