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GStreamer Release Policies (or: why we should become a country and pass laws)
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Development Period
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Development period is marked by having a fourth (nano) version number of 1.
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During development anything goes short of wiping the tree.
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Just try doing a few basic things :
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- make sure it builds for you !
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- preferably, keep an anonymous checkout around as well so you can
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immediately update and check if your changes work in a clean tree as well
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Prerelease Period
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-----------------
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After a bit of development, people want a new release. This generally happens
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when :
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- core developers get anxious to apply massive changes to the core bound
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to break everything
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- a few important plugins decide, as if by magic, to work again (avi, mad, ...)
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- thaytan or thomasvs get tired of being lazy.
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Also, this should only be allowed after passing a few sanity checks :
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- make distcheck should pass
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- rpms should build
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- FIXME: should debs be built here ? If so, how ?
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At this time, we need to do a few prereleases for general checking by all
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interested developers. The git modules that are in the process of being
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released are usually frozen for commits during that time, until the final
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release is made. We intentionally don't do releases in separate branches to
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make sure everyone is focused on testing the code that is about to be released.
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RELEASE PROCEDURE:
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-----------------
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- www/bin/new-release is a release helper script. It automates a lot of the
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tedious work. Now releasing looks like this:
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- before release:
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- make sure all blocker bugs for that release are fixed or deferred
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- make sure you have a local copy of all online files
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- run 'make download-po' to make sure translations in CVS are up-to-date,
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and then 'make update-po' in po/ (which will update the .pot template too
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and merge the changes into the .po files)
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- run 'make win32-update' where applicable
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- Make one or more prereleases
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- Make sure you've got the latest clean CVS of the module
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- Run bin/data-get in www/ to sync data from website
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- Bump the nano number to >= 2 (eg, first pre-release for
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0.10.12 is 0.10.11.2)
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- When releasing -base/-good/-ugly/-bad/gnonlin, make sure GST_REQ and
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GST_PBREQ are up-to-date. In particular, keep GST_REQ of the
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to-be-released -base module in sync with the core version that is to
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be released at the same time
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- Re-autogen if not in maintainer-mode (which you should be)
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- Update the changelog
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python common/gen-changelog.py > ChangeLog
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- Check (and fix if necessary) make distcheck
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- run 'make release' to build the tarballs
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- copy tarballs+md5 sums to the data/src/$module/pre/ dir
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- Run bin/data-put in www/ to sync the new tarballs to the website
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- Announce the availability of the new tarballs
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- Tell the translation project by sending an email to
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coordinator@translationproject.org, eg:
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Subject: gst-plugins-bad-0.10.5.2.pot available
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Tarball is at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/pre/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.5.2.tar.bz2
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- prepare the release:
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- Make sure your www is up to date: Run bin/data-get in www/
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- Update the doap file to insert the new release info
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- Prepare the following in a text file for copy'n'paste purposes:
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- list of noteworthy changes / new features, check changelog or shortlog:
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- git log RELEASE-0.10.98..
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- git shortlog RELEASE-0.10.98..
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- wrap like this:
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<feature>added this and that</feature>
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<feature>foodemux now supports seek in twilight mode</feature>
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- list of API additions, two useful sources:
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- git diff RELEASE-0.10.98.. win32/common/*.def \
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| grep "^+[^+]" | sed -e 's/[^a-z_]*/ <item>/' -e 's%$%</item>%'
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- git log RELEASE-0.10.98.. --grep=API
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- wrap like this:
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<item>gst_new_func()</item>
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<item>gst_new_func_full()</item>
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- list of recently deprecated API, same as above:
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<item>gst_broken_func()</item>
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- in www, run bin/new-release (module) (version) (checkoutdir) (release name)
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- updates git
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- allows you to update versioning in configure.ac (don't forget to bump
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core/base requirements from prereleases to released version if needed)
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- rebuilds
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- updates ChangeLog
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- adds a new releases/module/version.xml file and lets you edit
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--> here you add/fix up the features (from ChangeLog) and check
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contributors
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- allows you to update NEWS file with snippets from RELEASE
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--> copy stuff
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- rebuilds docs for plugins
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- rolls release tarballs and puts them in the local www/data tree
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- uploads docs to website
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- commits changes to po files
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- shows you a diff for evaluation
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- build packages to test
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- release:
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- 'git commit -a' in the tree
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- tag tree
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for example for 0.10.42 :
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git tag -a -m 'Release 0.10.42' RELEASE-0.10.42
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Make sure to use the -a option to create an *annotated* tag: 'git describe'
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should show 'RELEASE-0.10.42'
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- bump nano number in configure.ac, commit
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- sync source and packages to website
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+ run /bin/data-put in www
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- change versions in www/src/htdocs/entities.gst
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- add entry on website
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+ Edit src/htdocs/news/news.xml (in a local checkout of the www git module)
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and add a new item at the bottom.
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- commit additions and push changes to the server
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- run bin/www-update in your www git module checkout. This will ssh into
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the server and update the website based on the changes you just pushed.
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This may require an entry for gstreamer.freedesktop.org in your
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~/.ssh/config (e.g. in case your local username is different from your
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freedesktop.org username)
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- add versions and milestones in bugzilla
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- upload new core, -base and -good tarballs to gnome ftp
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+ e.g:
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scp gstreamer-0.10.42.tar.gz master.gnome.org:
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ssh master.gnome.org
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ftpadmin install gstreamer-0.10.42.tar.gz
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- Send release announcements to:
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gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
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gstreamer-announce@lists.freedesktop.org
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kde-multimedia@kde.org
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gnome-multimedia@gnome.org
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- Update freshmeat with new releases (get Uraeus to do it)
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- push release commit(s) to git repo
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- push new tag to git repo: git push origin tag RELEASE-0.10.42
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