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Mary Laser, 06/01/2012 05:36 pm

Release Process

The following steps should be taken to produce new FOSSology releases:

Release Candidates

  • Determine the revision number and create a tag in svn for the release candidate (e.g. tags/rc/0.6.5_rc1): How to Create a New Release
  • Check/update INSTALL and INSTALL.multi
  • Update changelog (svn)
  • Build Packages
    • All packages are built on fossbuild.usa.hp.com using project builder
  • Post tarball to SourceForge from fossbuild:/home/build/pb/projects/fossology/delivery
  • Post release notes to SourceForge from here
  • Copy packages to fossology.org (see below)
  • Create list of known issues from the issue tracker
  • Announce candidate release to & mailing lists using this (or a similar) template, including the list of supported platforms and known issues
  • External & internal testing cycles with release candidate
    • Install on single test system (internal)
    • Initial sanity tests (internal)
    • Install on multiple test system (internal)
    • Multiple system/integration tests (internal)
    • Perform upgrade tests (from previous release)
  • Updates to fossology.org
  • Update schemaspy on fossology.org

Final Release

  • Begin a discussion on irc and send email to fossology-devel that the final release process is taking place (suggested by taggart, so we don't miss stuff). Give people a few days to respond and review the release notes that will be sent with the release announcement.
  • Complete/double-check the list of items above for Release Candidates

Copy Packages to fossology.org

  • Packages on fossology.org are stored at:/var/www/fossology.org/htdocs/releases/.
  • Create a new version directory and populate it with Debian Fedora RHEL and Ubuntu directories.
    Eg. /var/www/fossology.org/htdocs/releases/2.0.0-rc3/Debian
    • Create any needed subdirectories. For example, Debian/squeeze or Fedora/15 use the directory tree on fossbuild (in /var/www/ftp/pub) as a guide.
  • You must copy from fossbuild to fossology.org as the user fossology. Your public key must be added to the authorized_keys file (for the fossology user) to copy the files.
    • For example, to copy the rc2 Ubuntu bits from fossbuild to fossology.org:
      cd /var/ftp/pub/fossology/2.0.0rc2/ubuntu
      scp -r * fossology@fossology.org:/var/www/fossology.org/htdocs/releases/2.0.0-rc2/Ubuntu

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