simantics/platform and simantics/third-party Git repositories have a branch release/x.y.z[.w] and tag x.y.z[.w].release/x.y.z[.w] release stabilisation branchThere are both plug-in components and products that are part of the "Simantics release train" that shall be released simultaneously to a major or minor Simantics release.
-Plug-in components are installable features that are deployed online as P2 repositories for general availability. Products are deployed as ZIP files and made available online in designated locations on simantics.org.
-Products that are part of the release train:
-Plug-in components that are part of the release train:
-For simplicity, each of these components are versioned accoring to platform versioning, i.e. for Platform SDK 1.26.0 there will be Simantics Desktop 1.26.0, Sysdyn 1.26.0, and so on.
-When release stabilisation starts, branch simantics/platform and simantics/third-party repositories:
git clone ssh://<user>@www.simantics.org:29418/simantics/platform.git
-cd platform
-git branch release/x.y.z[.w] <commit>
-git push origin release/x.y.z[.w]
-
-git clone ssh://<user>@www.simantics.org:29418/simantics/third-party.git
-cd third-party
-git branch release/x.y.z[.w] <commit>
-git push origin release/x.y.z[.w]
-When creating major/minor releases <commit> is usually a commit in the master branch.
-With service releases, branch from an existing release/* branch instead.
Retrieve release branch of the platform repository
-git clone ssh://<user>@www.simantics.org:29418/simantics/platform.git
-cd platform
-git branch release/x.y.z[.w] remotes/origin/release/x.y.z[.w]
-git checkout release/x.y.z[.w]
-Edit all target platform files in releng/org.simantics.sdk.build.targetdefinition/, i.e.
simantics.targetorg.simantics.sdk.build.targetdefinition.targetAt the beginning of simantics.target file, increment sequenceNumber by 1 and replace
-the version numbers in target name and org.simantics.sdk.feature.group and
-org.simantics.sdk.source.feature.group with x.y.z[.w]:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<?pde version="3.8"?>
-<target name="Simantics x.y.z[.w]" sequenceNumber="11">
-<unit id="org.simantics.sdk.feature.group" version="x.y.z[.w]"/>
-<unit id="org.simantics.sdk.source.feature.group" version="x.y.z[.w]"/>
-Next, replace the following rows in both mentioned files:
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/master/sdk"/>
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/master/external-components/maven"/>
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/master/external-components/manual"/>
-with
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/release/x.y.z[.w]/sdk"/>
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/release/x.y.z[.w]/external-components/maven"/>
-<repository location="http://www.simantics.org/download/release/x.y.z[.w]/external-components/manual"/>
-Edit version number of org.simantics.sdk feature in features/org.simantics.sdk.feature/feature.xml to x.y.z[.w].
<feature
- id="org.simantics.sdk"
- label="Simantics SDK"
- version="x.y.z"
- provider-name="VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland">
-An example of these changes can be seen in gitweb.
-Ensure that Redmine has a release engineering issue for the branched release, such as Simantics 1.30.0 release engineering. Make a copy of the previous release issue to create the new one. Include link to original issue while copying.
-Commit the changes made
- git commit -a
-with the commit message
- Configured release/x.y.z[.w] branch for SDK builds.
-
- refs #xxxx
-where #xxxx is the number of the x.y.z[.w] release engineering issue and push them to remote
git push origin release/x.y.z[.w]
-If you are branching from master, bump the revision of master right now to start the next release cycle in master.
-An example of these changes can be seen in gitweb.
Commit the changes with the following commit message
-Bumped master target and org.simantics.sdk feature versions to x.y.z[.w].
-refs #yyyy
-where #yyyy is the number of the next release's release engineering issue.
release/x.y.z[.w]truerelease/x.y.z[.w]trueRunning these two builds will ensure that both the external components required to build the SDK and the Simantics SDK for the new release branch are published online at http://www.simantics.org/download/release/x.y.z[.w]/.
After this, whenever changes are pushed/merged to release/x.y.z[.w] branch in Gerrit, new SDK/Simantics SDK builds are triggered automatically and they will publish the results at the same location online.
This means that one does not have to do any tricks after this to build and publish the SDK as a P2 repository online. It is an automated process that is performed by the SDK/Simantics SDK Jenkins job.
-Documentation to review:
- -For each wiki page:
-Ensure tutorial wiki documentation at http://dev.simantics.org/index.php/Tutorials is up-to-date with the released platform
-Ensure tutorial projects and product build properly
-com.acme.movie
-When the release branches are ready for the release, tag them with the tag vx.y.z[.w]:
git clone ssh://<user>@www.simantics.org:29418/simantics/platform.git
-cd platform
-git checkout release/x.y.z[.w]
-git tag vx.y.z[.w] -m "Simantics x.y.z[.w] release"
-git push origin --tags
-
-git clone ssh://<user>@www.simantics.org:29418/simantics/third-party.git
-cd third-party
-git checkout release/x.y.z[.w]
-git tag vx.y.z[.w] -m "Simantics x.y.z[.w] release"
-git push origin --tags
---Note The -m argument must be supplied to create an annotated tag. -Only annotated or signed tags can be pushed to Gerrit.
-
This step is only necessary for major/minor releases, not for service releases.
-The wiki databases to be backed up are:
- -These are MediaWiki installations. The only sane way to "tag" the documentation -is to back up the mysql database backing the wiki. Should the wiki be required -at a later time for some reason, we'll put the documentation up then in a -separate Mediawiki installation.
-\t) with | with Regular Expressions selection checked|#|%{background: lightsalmon}Major Bug%%{background: lightgreen}Major Feature%%{background: lightgreen}Major Enhancement%Newsletter template:
-Hello everyone,
-
-Simantics release x.y.z[.w] has been released. Head over to
-https://www.simantics.org/redmine/news/<news number>
-for the release news.
-
-Best regards,
-Simantics Release Engineering Team
-Redmine news template:
-Title: Simantics x.y.z[.w] released
-
-Simantics x.y.z[.w] was released on <date>.
-Please find change log at: [[simantics-platform:Simantics_xyzw|Simantics x.y.z[.w]]]
-
-Insert some general thoughts on the release...
-Incorporate tutorial code in the platform repository as a separate folder to allow platform builds to directly ensure that the tutorial code still builds OK
-Start using https://github.com/mbarbero/fr.obeo.releng.targetplatform to generate .target files. .tpd files allow specifying version ranges instead of specific versions.
release/x.y.z[.w] and tag called x.y.z[.w].release/x.y.z[.w] release stabilisation branchThere are both plug-in components and products that are part of the Simantics Release Train that shall be released simultaneously to a major or minor Simantics release.
+Plug-in components are installable features that are deployed online as P2 repositories for general availability. Products are deployed as ZIP files and made available online in designated locations on simantics.org.
+Core components of the release train:
+Plug-in components that are part of the release train:
+Products that are part of the release train:
+For simplicity, each of these components are versioned accoring to platform versioning, i.e. for Platform SDK 1.26.0 there will be Simantics Desktop 1.26.0, Sysdyn 1.26.0, and so on.
+Ensure that Gitlab has a release engineering issue for the branched release, +such as Simantics 1.34.0 release engineering
+$version release engineering.simantics/platform#16.releng and $version to the new issueWhen release stabilisation starts, all relevant repositories need to be branched.
+When creating major/minor releases <commit> is usually a commit in the master branch.
+With service releases, branch from an existing release/* branch instead.
Instead of doing this clone+branch+push sequence for every SDK repository separately, please use the included release-helper.sh shell script to perform this mechanical work.
+The script supports many useful basic git commands which all perform the requested operation on all the release train repositories.
+The operations can be seen from the help text printed by the script when given no arguments:
Usage: release-helper.sh <version> <branch-name> <user-name> <command> [<command-arguments>]
+
+Commands:
+ clone The first thing that needs to be done before anything else
+ Clones all platform repositories under directory <version>
+
+Inspection commands:
+ diff [args] Run git diff [args] for each platform repository
+ log [args] Run git log [args] for each platform repository
+ status [args] Run git status [args] for each platform repository
+ list-tags Run git tag -l for each repository
+
+Action:
+ add
+ branch Run git branch <branch-name> for each platform repository
+ checkout Run git checkout <branch-name> for each repository
+ commit
+ fetch Run git fetch --all for each repository
+ pull Run git pull --all for each repository
+ push Run git push origin <branch> for each repository
+ push-tags Run git push --tags for each repository
+ remove-tag Run git tag -d v<branch> for each repository
+ reset [args] Run git reset [args] for each repository
+ tag Run git checkout <branch> and
+ git tag -a v<branch> -m "Simantics <branch> simultaneous release"
+ for each repository
+
+Compound release commands:
+ prepare-release-branch <from-branch>
+ <from-branch> the name of the branch that the codebase is currently on
+
+Top-level release commands:
+ bump-master-version <from-version> <to-version>
+ <from-version> the version string to replace
+ <to-version> the replacing new version string
+
+ branch-release <from-branch>
+ <from-branch> the branch to create the service branch from
+ e.g. master or release/x.y.z
+Begin by cloning all the repositories for working on
+user=<your-git-username>
+version=x.y.z
+branch=release/x.y.z
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user clone
+This will create a directory called x.y.z under the current working directory and clone all the repositories under it.
+The first version argument is only used for the base working directory x.y.z.
+The second branch argument tells what branch to specify to some of the available actions, e.g. branch, checkout, etc.
Creating the release branch from master and pushing the new branches to remote happens as follows:
+# When the commit messages appear, add references to created
+# Gitlab release engineering issues by adding this to the commit message:
+#
+# gitlab #xxxx
+#
+# where xxxx is the release engineering issue for the respective project
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user branch-release master
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user push
+If you're creating a service release x.y.w from x.y.z where w > z, do this:
fromBranch=release/x.y.z
+branch=release/x.y.w
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user branch-release $fromBranch
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user push
+If you branched a new release from master, you should also bump the revision of the master branch right now to start the next release cycle in master.
+An example of these changes can be seen in gitweb or in review 1362.
+The changes include:
Perform and push the changes in master by running:
+branch=master
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user checkout
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user bump-master-version x.y.z X.Y.Z
+./release-helper.sh $version $branch $user push
+x.y.z is the old version number of master and X.Y.Z is the new version number.
+Trigger an execution of the simantics-release-train Jenkins job with parameters
+release/x.y.z[.w]trueto ensure that all components of the release train build fine and to publish first versions of P2 repositories of everything online.
+The release train build is currently never ran automatically.
+However, after following all these steps, whenever changes are pushed/merged to release/x.y.z[.w] branch in Gerrit, new Jenkins builds are triggered automatically and they will publish the results (P2 repositories/products) at their designated locations online.
The release train build does two very important steps as the first things, +i.e. build the external dependency P2 repositories for both the +Platform SDK and Simupedia:
+stage('External Dependencies') {
+ node {
+ build job: 'SDK/Deploy External Components to Web', parameters: params1
+ build job: 'Member Components/Simupedia/fi.semantum.simupedia.build.p2.site', parameters: params1
+ }
+}
+After that it builds the Platform SDK and Simupedia before building anything else:
+stage('SDK') {
+ node {
+ build job: 'SDK/Simantics SDK', parameters: params1
+ // Note that Simantics SDK builds simupedia-git as well
+ }
+}
+Documentation to review:
+ +For each wiki page:
+Ensure tutorial wiki documentation at http://dev.simantics.org/index.php/Tutorials is up-to-date with the released platform
+Ensure tutorial projects and product build properly
+com.acme.movie
+When the release branches are ready for the release, tag them with the tag vx.y.z[.w]:
./release-helper.sh x.y.z release/x.y.z your-git-username checkout
+./release-helper.sh x.y.z release/x.y.z your-git-username pull
+./release-helper.sh x.y.z release/x.y.z your-git-username tag
+./release-helper.sh x.y.z release/x.y.z your-git-username push-tags
+++Note: release-helper.sh will supply the -m argument to git tag to create an annotated tag. +Only annotated or signed tags can be pushed to Gerrit.
+
NOTE: This step is now deprecated since we are in the process of moving all mediawiki-based documentation into the platform git repository.
+This step is only necessary for major/minor releases, not for service releases.
+The wiki databases to be backed up are:
+ +These are MediaWiki installations. The only sane way to "tag" the documentation +is to back up the mysql database backing the wiki. Should the wiki be required +at a later time for some reason, we'll put the documentation up then in a +separate Mediawiki installation.
+\t) with | with Regular Expressions selection checked|#|%{background: lightsalmon}Major Bug%%{background: lightgreen}Major Feature%%{background: lightgreen}Major Enhancement%Newsletter template:
+Hello everyone,
+
+Simantics release x.y.z[.w] has been released. Head over to
+https://www.simantics.org/redmine/news/<news number>
+for the release news.
+
+Best regards,
+Simantics Release Engineering Team
+Redmine news template:
+Title: Simantics x.y.z[.w] released
+
+Simantics x.y.z[.w] was released on <date>.
+Please find change log at: [[simantics-platform:Simantics_xyzw|Simantics x.y.z[.w]]]
+
+Insert some general thoughts on the release...
+