On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > 16 releases in 12 months would just about make me go crazy. > > is there any way we could further automate or otherwise streamline or > distribute the release process ?
It's already pretty heavily automated (see welease.py in the SVN sandbox). The killer problem is pyramid (the system for the website). Here's (roughly) a breakdown of the workload: - Update the 10 or so files that need the date and version number (about 3m) - Run welease.py, select the branch, enter the version number, press 4 buttons, one after the other. It complains and stops if something goes wrong. (elapsed time about 5-10m, actual "work" time < 30s) - Wait for the Mac/Win/Doc builders (elapsed, 6-12h, depending on timezones, actual "work" time 0s) - Sign binaries and put in place on website (maybe 2m work, plus 5-10m to scp up to dinsdale) - Update webpages (between 30m and an hour, depending on how much I have to fight with pyramid. I still need to go update the old release pages putting the warnings on them, so there's probably another hour of work today) I've mentioned this on pydotorg enough times, I don't feel I can continue to complain about it (because I can't offer the time to make it better) but pyramid is *not* *good* from my point of view. The older system with Makefiles, ht2html and rsync took maybe 1/4 to 1/3 as long. > ideally, releasing (earlier release + well-defined patch set) should be > fairly trivial, compared to releasing (new release from trunk). what do > we have to do to make it easier to handle that case? Mostly it is easy for me, with the one huge caveat. As far as I know, the Mac build is a single command to run for Ronald, and the Doc build similarly for Fred. I don't know what Martin has to do for the Windows build. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
