HypertableReleaseWorkflow - hypertable - Release maintainer's notes

Updated Sep 15, 2009 by nuggetwheat

HypertableReleaseWorkflow

Release maintainer's notes

The example shown here is to upgrade from 0.9.0.0-alpha to 0.9.0.1-alpha. Adapt accordingly.

Update the CHANGES file with the list of changes for the release
Modify the CMakeLists.txt file to include the new version number
Rename the lib/hypertable-$VERSION.jar file to reflect the new release version
Update version number in conf/Capfile.*
Run make doc and try to eliminate doxygen warnings
Update README to point to new thrift, if needed

First get all changes into 'next'
Make sure the version number is correct (e.g. 0.9.0.1 here) in the top-level CMakeLists.txt
Make sure 'next' is a superset of 'master', do a git merge master
Make sure tests are passing in the 'next' branch

  git checkout master
  git merge next

git tag -a v0.9.0.1

Note, -a or -s is required for "git describe" used by the version mechanism in the build system)

git push # optionally with an origin name
git push --tags # optionally with an origin name

git archive --format=tar --prefix=hypertable-0.9.0.1-alpha/ v0.9.0.1 | gzip -9 > /tmp/hypertable-0.9.0.1-alpha-src.tar.gz

Note: gzip compress better than bzip2 for hypertable source, go figure; the trailing / in the prefix is important.

Upload the tarball to the google code download area: http://code.google.com/p/hypertable/downloads/list
Update github repository
Build binary packages using bin/src-utils/htbuild
Update website (in the html.git repository): change wordings in src/*.php and src/*.inc if necessary. But more importantly edit the src/release.inc to make sure variables: $download_version, $release_version and $release_date are set correctly. And then in the web root directory, run the following command:

src/generate.sh

which will generate the html pages and the news feed.

Re-build doxygen source documentation, check it in (html.git) and publish it (push to the official html.git and pull in /var/www/html)
Send a note to the mailing lists (hypertable-...)

Comment by dr.chamberlain, Mar 06, 2008

Sed already handles this:

sed 's/February 4/February 7/g' $i > $i.2; rm $i; mv $i.2 $i

with this:

sed -i 's/February 4/February 7/g' $i

Details:

-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] Edit files in place(makes backup if extension supplied).

Go Hypertable!

Comment by vicaya, Mar 06, 2008

Thanks for the note. The suffix is actually required for /usr/bin/sed on Mac OS X.

So this would work:

sed -i.bak 's/February 4/February 7/g' *.html