Hi, On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > Sergiu has started a script to fully automate a release (more to come - > Sergiu will document what it does soon). The only part not automated are the > Release Notes. > > IMO we can "automate" it by a process which I propose to be: > > * An issue can only be closed if it's documented on xwiki.org and on the > release notes page for the upcoming release. > I`m not very keen of such an approach. This adds paperwork to N people (devs) that have already completed a job, multiplied by M issues (which can be more than 1 each day) done by each person... instead of just 1 person (release manager) in charge of a task that is repeated once every couple of weeks (low frequency). Plus, the N devs have to use 2 tools to close one single bug. Why don`t we use Jira's ability to comment on an issue when actually closing it? We could then make a script to automatically round up all such comments for the release process. At least it would be a single application and it would be no major breaking of the flow. > * We collectively enforce this by reopening issues if someone doesn't do > the first point, asking him/her to do it > Not sure how things work on Jira, but maybe we could do a very simple Jira extension/plugin that does not allow closing an issue without commenting on the chosen solution or whatever it is that we would want in the release notes. Thanks, Eduard > > This will have some nice effects: > * xwiki.org will be more up to date than it is now > * it's up to the developer to document what they do (I don't think it's > good to push this to someone else) which is good since they have the most > knowledge (side note: it doesn't mean we don't need a technical writer to > improve on the documentation done by developers but it would be about style > and not about content) > * the release notes will be ready for the release, as we progress and the > burden of writing the release notes will not fall on the shoulders of the > Release Manager (there's no reason it should) > * the whole release process will almost be a joy to do > * with a fully automated release process it means we'll be able to perform > a lot more bugfix releases which is good for our users > > Here's my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
