On May 17, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
> The next step in my work towards a fully git based development proces is to > enable release > handling based on the git repository. > > There were a few things missing in this respect: > - the tag builds on win32 only started from svn. My commits a few days back > have dealt with > this. So the next 2.5.x release will trigger a tag build based on a git > repository. > - ChangeLog and release message list generation was svn based. I have just > pushed some > commits to fix this as well. The top level makefile can now generate a > ChangeLog starting > from a svn or git repo. Also a new utility has been added to generate the > bulletted list for the > release news message: gitlog2ul.sh. > > With these fixed, I believe we can now do releases without ever checking out > an svn repo. > > There's just one little caveat: the svn repo is currently still our > canonical/primary/master repo > and tagging has to be done in that repo. That is because git tags can't be > pushed to the svn > repo. Luckily we don't need to check out the svn repo to create a tag as > tagging can be done > remotely. This limitation will be gone when git (at code.gnucash.org) will > become the master > repo. > > With these changes committed I have updated the Release Process wiki page > (1). It now has > instructions on how to release based on a git repo. The old svn based release > instructions are > still kept around for the remaining future 2.4.x releases (if any). > > The git process should not require you to checkout the svn repo at all, but > will include one > svn cp command (to create the tag on the server side), and obviously any > committed > changes during the release process have to be pushed using "git svn dcommit" > still. > > I would very much like the 2.5.2 release to be a test of the updated release > process. John, > when you do the next release are you willing to proof-read, follow and > optionally improve > the git based release process as it is currently documented at (1) ? That > would be very > helpful. Thanks. > > By the way, my goal is to switch from svn to git as master repo as soon as we > know we have > released the last 2.4 series release. IMO that will be when we release 2.6 at > the latest. So I'd > like to do test runs like this as part of the 2.5.x release series to iron > out as much wrinkles as > possible. Geert, OK. I'm planning to release 2.5.3 on the 27th. That should be soon enough that I won't forget. ;-) Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
