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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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- check what you're about to commit with cvs -Q diff -r
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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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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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- Uraeus and thomasvs get tired of the general laziness
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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. To minimize the impact on the rest of the core hacking,
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we create a new CVS branch which will go through the pre-releases and finally
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contain the definitive tarball for that version.
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TODO :
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- Decide on the next version number (major, minor or micro upgrade ?)
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- Get a fresh copy to do the necessary tests on
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- If this isn't on the stable branch (like for 0.6), then create a new branch;
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- with 0.3.3 as an example, tag is BRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3
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cvs tag BRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3-ROOT
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cvs tag -b BRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3
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- update your local copy to the branch:
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cvs update -r BRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3
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- Set the nano to 2 (in configure.ac, AS_VERSION)
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- If this is a release candidate for a new major version, override
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MAJOR/MINOR in configure.ac
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- Do all updates/patches/changes for the release tarball in this branch
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- Think of a good codename for the release
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- Check the bug lists:
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- The idea is to have all bugs for this milestone listed as fixed
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- Check all of the bug reports with this version as a milestone, and verify
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that these bugs are fixed, or reassign to a later milestone if not
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- Check later milestone bugs, and if any of them are fixed, reassign to
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this milestone
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- Check the list of bugs resolved with milestone HEAD, which should be
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assigned to an actual milestone
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- create a new $(version).xml file in www/src/htdocs/releases/$(module)
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and add that to cvs
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- Start updating the release notes on the www cvs tree
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- create the base xml file in www/htdocs/releases/$/module)/$(version).xml
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- add the generated targets (text and html) for this to the Makefile.am
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- grepping ChangeLog for contributors:
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grep "<.*>" ChangeLog | perl -i -p -e 's@\d*-\d*-\d*\s*(.*)\s*<.*$@$1@' | sort | uniq
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- use www/bin/bugzilla (module) (version) to get an xml list of the
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bugs fixed in this version, and add it to the release .xml
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- depending on how the API has changed update the libtool versioning
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in configure.ac, AS_LIBTOOL
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(Look at the libtool info page about versioning for guidelines)
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(if MAJOR/MINOR version has changed, however, you can reset all to 0)
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- FIXME: autotools have latest config.{guess,sub}
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This is needed in order to support newer platforms.
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On Debian install the autotools-dev package to get these.
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Someone please add some more useful info here on how to do this
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- while (IS_PRERELEASE)
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{
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- increase the nano number (starting with 2)
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- check out a fresh anonymous copy
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gstreamer.sf.net:/cvsroot/gstreamer \
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co -rBRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_3 gstreamer
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- make distcheck, rpm build should pass, from a FRESH cvs tree
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- media tests should be done
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- source tarball should be installed and tested
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- rpms should be installed and tested
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- put up tarball for a day
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}
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Release Period
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When we're satisfied with the prereleases, it's time to make the final tarball.
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It's very important that the tarball we put out is fully checked, works as
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planned, and generally is generated only ONCE by someone with a relatively
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clean (and reference) system. We don't want to put out more than one tarball
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with the same name.
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TODO :
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- give the latest prerelease another good testing
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- proofread the release notes
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- run bugzilla with the correct module and milestone and include
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the output in the release notes
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bin/bugzilla gstreamer 0.7.5 >> src/htdocs/releases/gstreamer/0.7.5.xml
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then edit it
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- copy www/htdocs/releases/$(module)/$(version) to RELEASE
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- copy the list of changes, bugs fixed, and API changes and add them to NEWS
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- update the ChangeLog and add === release (version) ===
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- update web site docs
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- release-specific docs should go in CVS
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- change docs/current symlink
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- remove the nano version number in configure.ac, AS_VERSION
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- cvs commit
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- tag tree
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for example for 0.6.3 :
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cvs tag RELEASE-0_6_3
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- run "make release", build rpms
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- for core: run "make upload" from gstreamer/docs to get the new docs online
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- change www/src/htdocs/entities.gst with the new version numbers
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- change www/src/htdocs/bugs/bugs.xml and add a new milestone
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- possibly add new version and milestone to bugzilla
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- add a news item to the news.xml
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Post-Release Period
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-------------------
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Time to bring the new version under the eyes of the public.
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TODO :
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- FIXME: should we md5 the tarballs?
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- upload to sourceforge
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upload.sourceforge.net/incoming
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administer the release
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- FIXME: announcements
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- gstreamer-{devel, announce} : a simple mail with RELEASE
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- freshmeat
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- linux-audio-dev (if it's a big release) : a simple mail with RELEASE
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- gnome lists (?)
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- lwn (if it's a big release)
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- send mail for translators with URL to .tar.bz2:
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translation@iro.umontreal.ca
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- Kick back, have a party, enjoy people coming in on IRC telling us how
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GStreamer rocks.
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- Later on, if necessary, merge back latest release branch to current dev
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branch (if patches to source were made)
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TWO WAYS:
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A)
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* get a diff between the branch root and the final release:
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cvs diff -r BRANCH-RELEASE-0_7_5-ROOT -r RELEASE-0_7_5 > patch
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* fix up this patch (remove RELEASE)
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* and apply it to the HEAD branch
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* update nano version to 1 in configure.ac
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B)
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* change to a HEAD branch, make sure it's updated
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* cvs diff -R -r RELEASE-0_3_4-30SECONDFRENCHMAN
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gives a list of differences between head and release tag,
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stuff with > is how it's in HEAD, < is in the rel branch
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* cvs update -j BRANCH-RELEASE-0_3_4
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merges the difference made in that branch to the current source
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this is what you want to use when merging back the branch
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resolve conflicts and commit
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Some various random comments that might or might not make sense :
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- Should work:
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* autoconf feature to allow building outside source dir
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- Package version policy
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- Use major.minor.micro versioning
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- Before 1.0.0, Update micro until code and API are fairly stable,
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then update minor.
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- After 1.0.0,
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Update major when code and api hit new level of stability or major features.
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Update minor on API changes.
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Update micro on API-compatible changes.
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