> > Some colleagues of mine were shocked to know that releasing software is > such a laboriously manual process in 2020s era! We need to make things much > better, going forward.
I don't see why a release should involve anything other than a fully > automated script. It is practically automated, much thanks to Jan. The releaseWizard really takes almost all of the effort out of doing the release. There are steps that have to be manual, so we can't automate everything, but it is really straightforward. Also all of this work is due to the massive changes we have in 9.0. Because we have so many improvements, not all of the build steps could be automated in time. For future releases this won't be a problem (at least for these features) - SOLR-15941 I think, is about getting Jenkins to publish the RefGuide to > svn for us? - The Docker image release can be done semi manually this first time? But > more automation, repos and plumbing needed. I can take care of these while you are away Jan. Again, thanks for all of the amazing work you've done for this release! - Houston On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 8:36 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < [email protected]> wrote: > +1, let's wait for you to finish your vacation. > > Rant: > Some colleagues of mine were shocked to know that releasing software is > such a laboriously manual process in 2020s era! We need to make things much > better, going forward. > > I don't see why a release should involve anything other than a fully > automated script. > > On Fri, 8 Apr, 2022, 7:15 pm Jan Høydahl, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It now seems as if Solr 9.0.0-RC3 vote will succeed later tonight. >> >> However, as Easter holiday is coming up I'll be unavailable from tomorrow >> until Friday next week, which is unfortunate timing. >> >> Solr 9.0.0 cannot be released and announced until at least the ref-guide >> is done. Some blockers remain: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12351219 >> >> Ad-hoc list of remaining tasks, mainly ref-guide related: >> - Major Changes page is in-flight but lots of work left in: >> https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/769 >> - System requirements page updates being merged today >> https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/795 >> - jdbc() stream docs removed being merged today >> https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/788 >> - SOLR-15557 for ref-guide redirects almost done in >> https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/596 >> - Need to remove Lucene/Solr language across the entire guide (no jira, >> discovered this yesterday) >> - SOLR-15941 I think, is about getting Jenkins to publish the RefGuide to >> svn for us? >> - The Docker image release can be done semi manually this first time? But >> more automation, repos and plumbing needed. >> - The ReleaseNotes at >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=199540620 >> got >> a lot of edits and feedback but needs a finishing touch >> >> And of course all the remaining RM steps about website, JIRA, DOAP etc >> >> I realize that all of this will not happen today or before I leave for >> holiday. So my proposal is that you guys fix all of the above while I'm >> away and then I come back and push the "Send" buttton :-) Well that was a >> joke, but delaying the official release until end of next week may be the >> most realistic way forward. >> Another option is to release the binaries without a RefGuide and Docker >> Image. I'm not a big fan of that, or that another committer take over as >> RM, which would keep the pressure up and secure the release a few days >> earlier than what I can promise. >> >> Jan >> >
