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Rebuild the Changelog. I use a tool called cvs2cl. Run this command from the package root to automatically generate a Changelog file in the same dir. We generate two changelogs, one for the minor branch and one for the most recent release. The example below is for OpenACS 5.0.2: cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME cvs2cl -F oacs-5-0 --delta openacs-5-0-0-final:oacs-5-0 -f ChangeLog cvs2cl -F oacs-5-0 --delta openacs-5-0-1-final:oacs-5-0 -f ChangeLog-recent The version numbers in the documentation and in the packages must be updated. This should only happen after a release candidate is approved. .LRN: this must be repeated for .LRN modules (dotlrn-core in the dotlrn cvs tree) and for any modified modules in the .LRN prerequisites (dotlrn-prereq in openacs cvs tree). My current working model is that I bulk-update .LRN and OpenACS core but that I don't touch dotlrn-prereq modules - I just use the most recent release and it's up to individual package developers to tag and release those packages when they change. This model is already broken because following it means that dotlrn-prereqs don't get new translations. Update /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/variables.ent with the new version number. Add new section in /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/for-everyone/release-notes.xml Regenerate all HTML docs cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml make Update /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/readme.txt with the new version number Update version number and release date in all of the core packages. Here's a bash/perl script which works but could be made easier to use. (It depends on all of the old versions and dates being identical.) Run it from /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages: #!/bin/sh # run this file from ../packages to renumber all .info version numbers #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # here's what we're looking for #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # <version name="5.1.0d1" url="http:blahblah/acs-kernel-5.1.0d1.apm"> # <provides url="acs-kernel" version="5.1.0d1"/> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # here's what we don't want to touch #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # <requires url="acs-kernel" version="5.0.0b4"/> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- for dir in `find -name *.info` do perl -p -i -e 's/name="5\.0\.0"/name="5\.1\.0d1"/' $dir perl -p -i -e 's/-5\.0\.0.apm"/-5\.1\.0d1.apm"/' $dir perl -p -i -e 's/(provides.*version)="5\.0\.0"/\1="5\.1\.0d1"/' $dir perl -p -i -e 's/2004-10-21/2004-11-26/' $dir done Install a new site using the modified code and verify that the automated tests pass. Commit changes to CVS The steps to this point should have ensured that the head of the current branch contains the full set of code to release. Now we need to tag it as the code to be released. Check out OpenACS Core. The files must be checked out through a cvs account with write access and should be a checkout from the release branch. In this example, we are assuming this is being done as a local user on openacs.org (which make the checkout and tagging operations much faster). cd /var/tmp cvs -d /cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-0 acs-core If doing .LRN, repeat with the dotlrn cvs tree. cd /var/tmp mkdir dotlrn-packages cd dotlrn-packages cvs -d /dotlrn-cvsroot checkout -r dotlrn-2-0 dotlrn-all Tag the tree. If it's a final release of core, move or create the appropriate openacs-major-minor-compat tag. (Ie, if releasing 5.0.3 final, move the openacs-5-0-compat flag.) cd /var/tmp/openacs-4 cvs tag -F openacs-5-0-0a1 cvs tag -F openacs-5-0-compat When we feature-freeze on HEAD as part of the release process, we are blocking new development. To avoid this, we branch the code at this point, so that new work can continue on HEAD while the branch is stabilized for release. However, branching means that bug fixes have to be synchronized between HEAD and the branch, and bug fixes tend to be more frequent right at this time. Therefore, our actual branch point is as late as possible - essentially, we do not branch until and unless new feature work is actively blocked by the feature freeze. Branching is almost the same as tagging, except for the flag and slightly different tag nomenclature. To see the list of old branches, cvs status -v somefile. cvs tag -b oacs-5-0 If doing .LRN: Since the .LRN packages aren't all in one module, we iterate through all of the modules. Log in first (cvs login) so that you don't have to log in for each module. cd /var/tmp/dotlrn-packages for dir in *; do ( cd $dir && cvs tag dotlrn-2-0-2-final ); done for dir in *; do ( cd $dir && cvs tag -F openacs-5-0-compat ); done Note that for the compat tag we use the -F flag which will force the tag to the new version (just in case someone has created the tag already on another version). Excercise care when doing this since you don't want to inadvertently move a prior release tag. Also if the tagging goes horribly wrong for some reason you can delete the tag via "cvs tag -d <symbolic_tag>". Apply the final tag across the tree. First, check out the entire OpenACS tree, getting the most recent stable version of each package. This is most simply done on openacs.org: cd /var/tmp cvs -d /cvsroot checkout -r openacs-5-1-compat openacs-4 cd openacs-4 cvs tag openacs-5-1-2-final Go to a new working space and export the tagged files. mkdir /var/tmp/tarball cd /var/tmp/tarball cvs -d /cvsroot export -r openacs-5-0-0a1 acs-core Generate the tarball. cd /var/tmp/tarball mv openacs-4 openacs-5.0.0a1 tar cz -f openacs-5.0.0a1.tar.gz openacs-5.0.0a1 Go to a new working space and export the tagged files. (was getting errors here trying to use -d, so gave up and just moved things from openacs-4 to openacs at the end) mkdir /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball cd /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball cvs -d /cvsroot export -r openacs-5-0-0a1 acs-core cd /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball/openacs-4/packages cvs -d /cvsroot export -r openacs-5-0-0a1 dotlrn-prereq cvs -d /dotlrn-cvsroot export -r dotlrn-2-0-0a1 dotlrn-core Copy the dotlrn install.xml file, which controls which packages are installed on setup, to the root location: cp /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball/openacs-4/packages/dotlrn/install.xml \ /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball/openacs-4 Generate the tarball cd /var/tmp/dotlrn-tarball mv openacs-4 dotlrn-2.0.0a1 tar cz -f dotlrn-2.0.0a1.tar.gz dotlrn-2.0.0a1 Download the tarballs just created and install them and make sure everything looks okay and that automated tests pass. Update the different places on OpenACS.org where we track status. Release Status for the current version - something like http://openacs.org/projects/openacs/5.0/milestones Home page of openacs.org Post a new news item Clean up after yourself. cd /var/tmp rm -rf tarball dotlrn-tarball dotlrn-packages openacs-5.0.0a1 rm -rf /var/tmp/openacs-4 Here is a shell script that automates packaging the tarball (it's a bit out of date with the new steps - I've been doing everything manually or with little throwaway scripts as detailed above until the process is stabilized). release script missing ($Id: releasing-openacs.xml,v 1.16.2.6 2004/11/29 19:25:24 joel Exp $)

Setup a local OpenACS server running 5.0 or better. Edit packages/acs-admin/www/apm/build-repository.tcl and adjust the Configuration Settings. Request /acs-admin/apm/build-repository on your new server. The page will find all branches in the cvs repository labeled oacs-x-y, and build a repository channel for each of those branches where x>=5 (so not for 4.6 and earlier). It will also build a channel for HEAD, which will be named after what you set in 'head_channel' above. For each channel, it'll do an anonymous checkout of packges and contrib/packages, then build .apm files for each package in the checkout. The files will be stored on the server's hard drive in the directory specified by the 'repository_dir' variable in the page script, by default "[acs_root_dir]/www/repository/". If you're on openacs.org, everything should now be fine. Otherwise, you need to move the entire directory tree to openacs.org:/web/openacs/www/repository, replacing what was already there. This is automated on OpenACS.org by having a dedicated site just for building the repository, invoked with this shell script. Since the page circumvents security checks for ease of use, the entire site is limited to local requests. The script is called daily with a cron job. #!/bin/sh #set -x STATUS=`wget --output-document - http://127.0.0.1:8002/build-repository.tcl | grep DONE | wc -l` if [ $STATUS -eq "1" ] then rm -rf /web/openacs.org/www/repository.old mv /web/openacs.org/www/repository /web/openacs.org/www/repository.old cp -r /web/repository/www/repository /web/openacs.org/www/repository fi

In this example, we are packaging and releasing myfirstpackage as version 1.0.0, which is compatible with OpenACS 5.0.x. Update the version number of your package in the APM. Make sure all changes are committed. Tag the updated work.: cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage cvs tag myfirstpackages-1-0-0-final cvs tag -F openacs-5-0-compat Done. The package will be added to the repository automatically. If the correct version does not show up within 24 hours, ask for help on the OpenACS.org development forum.

Identify any new locales that have been created. For each new locale, check the parameters, especially that the locale is in the format [two-letter code for language, lower-case]_[TWO-LETTER CODE FOR COUNTRY, UPPER-CASE], and create a sql command. A example sql command for creating a locale is: insert into ad_locales (locale, label, language, country, nls_language, nls_territory, nls_charset, mime_charset, default_p, enabled_p) values ('fa_IR', 'Farsi (IR)', 'fa', 'IR', 'FARSI', 'IRAN', 'AL24UTFFSS', 'windows-1256', 't', 'f'); Put this command into the following four files. For the upgrade files, the correct file name will depend on the exact version. /packages/acs-lang/sql/postgresql/ad-locales.sql /packages/acs-lang/sql/postgresql/upgrade/upgrade-current-version.sql /packages/acs-lang/sql/oracle/ad-locales.sql /packages/acs-lang/sql/oracle/upgrade/upgrade-current-version.sql Make a backup of the production database. Restore it as a new database. For example, if upgrading from OpenACS 5.1.1, and the site name/database name is translate-511, create translate-512b1. Check out the latest code on the release branch (e.g., oacs-5-1) as a new site, using the new site name (e.g., /var/lib/aolserver/translate-512b1. Copy over any local settings - usually, /etc/config.tcl and /etc/daemontools/run and modify appropriately. Also, copy over several translation-server-only files: ...TBD Shut down the production site and put up a notice (no procedure on how to do this yet.) Start the new site, and upgrade it. Go to ACS Lang admin page and click "Import All Messages" Resolve conflicts, if any, on the provided page. Back on the admin page, click the export link. If there are conflicts, the messages will be exported anyway and any errors will be shown in the web interface. Commit the message catalogs to cvs. From the packages dir, run the acs-lang/bin/check-catalog.sh script. (This checks for keys no longer in use and some other things. Until it is rolled into the UI, do it manually and check the results and take whatever steps you can intuit you should do.) CVS commit the catalog files. Done If everything went well, reconfigure the new site to take over the role of the old site (/etc/config.tcl and /etc/daemontools/run). Otherwise, bring the old site back up while investigating problems, and then repeat.