27 Nov
2012
27 Nov
'12
10:01 p.m.
On 11/27/2012 09:18 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
Here are some notes I took while releasing XWiki 4.3 on how to improve the release
process:
* We need to automate the generation of the CLIRR report. This is what takes the longest
when releasing (not overall time but manual time required). IMO this can be done
relatively easily by creating a patch for the CLIRR maven plugin itself to:
** Add support for wildcards in the new <difference> syntax
** Ensure that their report generation takes into account the <justification>
element
** Possibly add a text report generation that we'll be able to copy paste in our RN
+1.
* Remove PURL generation for Tweets
** Tweets are ephemeral so no need to have permanent URLs
** Tweet clients already do URL shortening
(It's complex to use the PURL UI too)
-1. The PURL is not just about twits, it's about having some permanent
links to our release notes. I really don't like that our URLs are so
damn long
(http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki44RC1
is 71 chars long), so I like to have something shorter.
So far I seem to be the only one that sees the value of PURLs, so if you
think that we don't want to maintain them in general (not just because
tweets are ephemeral), we could do that.
Why do you need to use the purl.org UI? The push-release script is
supposed to handle that automatically.
* Don't create RN summary for OW2, email and even
blog post. This will win some more time. Instead just link to the RN page which contains a
summary and all details.
I'm kind of -1 for this as well. The summary is for lazy or busy people
that don't have time to read our lengthy release notes. Not even our own
devs (and the rest of the XWiki SAS employees) have time to read them
fully. A very quick summary that takes 30 seconds to read is a good
thing, at least a few more people will find the time to read those and
notice how XWiki evolves.
For example for the email it could be:
"
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki Enterprise
<version>.
You can download it here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
Make sure to review the release notes:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki<short version>
Thanks
-The XWiki dev team
"
* Put maven.xwiki.org:~/xwiki-release-scripts under Git and do a git reset before the ow2
step to be sure to have clean scripts
I wanted to do that but git was not installed on the machine at that
time. I see that it is now.
[Some time later]
I did this, committed the only changes that were present there. It's a
read-only clone, so committing won't work directly from the machine
unless extra steps are taken.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
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