[development] new release system: patches needs review

[Earl Dunovant]

After making a new release, the text in the link for the default download on
the project page was missing the release number. I had to edit the project
page and save it with the new release number. Other than that, it looks
fine.

On 10/16/06, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:
>
> i'm pleased to announce that v0.1 of the new release system is Done
> Enough(tm).   of course, the system isn't completely done, in the
> sense that no further improvements could be made. ;)  i just think
> it's at a point of functionality and usability that we could install
> it, start using it, and make incremental improvements going forward.
> therefore, the 2 main issues now need review:
>
> "make releases real nodes"
> http://drupal.org/node/83339#comment-145779
> http://drupal.org/files/issues/release_as_node.patch_27.txt
>
> "port cvs.module to releases-as-nodes"
> http://drupal.org/node/84706#comment-146000
> http://drupal.org/files/issues/cvs_release_node.patch_17.txt
>
> these apply against DRUPAL-4-7 of project, project_issue and cvslog. [1]
>
> i don't expect everyone to review every line of code (or even
> understand all of it -- i had to do some fairly nasty FAPI tricks to
> make the UI as smooth as i could for adding new releases).  however,
> all of this is going to run on d.o and so we need to make sure it's
> all secure, the performance isn't going to be a problem, and that it
> all works how we want.  so, any reviews would be most appreciated
> (and obviously essential before the whole system can go to go live).
>
> if you're not a heavy-weight drupal coder and don't feel up to the
> task of reviewing this stuff, you can still help by playing with the
> new system on a test site i've setup:
>
> http://drupal-release.dwwright.net/
>
> this is running a modified copy of a DB snapshot from drupal.org as
> of about 2 months ago.  all the email addresses have been stripped
> out (so trying to reset your password won't work!), and a few of the
> modules have been disabled (namely all the forums and aggregator/blog
> stuff).  new account creation is disabled, but everyone with accounts
> on d.o can log in with their d.o username/password circa 2 months
> ago.  projects and issues are of course still enabled.  there's a
> scratch copy of the contrib cvs repository, too.  this is just a
> shared hosting box, so the performance is pretty terrible. ;)  don't
> let that scare you (and please be gentle on the site). ;)
>
> the main thing i need are people who maintain projects (modules,
> themes or translations) to login to the site, go to your project
> page, and try adding some new release nodes.  i haven't yet written
> the handbook pages, so i'll just briefly document the process for
> adding a release here:
>
> 1) create a cvs tag for your release
> 2) navigate to your project node
> 3) click on the "add new release" link
> 4) fill out the N-page form (which involves specifying the tag you
> want to use)
> 5) wait for the cron job to package your release based on the tag [2]
>
> since it's going to be too much of a pain in the ass to give y'all
> access to this test site's cvs repository, i just created some tags
> across the entire contrib repo for your testing enjoyment.  there are
> a few release tags and a few branches for each project.  if anyone
> wants additional tags created you can let me know (preferably when
> i'm on IRC, or else via email).
>
> if you add a release node and point it to a branch, that means you
> want nightly development snapshots created from that branch.  the
> conversion script that i ran (and which will run on d.o)
> automatically creates these release nodes for you for any existing
> releases (which are all snapshot releases from branches).  however,
> to give y'all a sense of how things will work in the long term, i
> removed all the HEAD-specific releases for all the projects, so folks
> can see what's it's like to add a release node for both the HEAD
> (which is a special case for various reasons you'll see when you fill
> out the form) and for a regular branch (DRUPAL-5).
>
> my goal is that the UI makes enough sense that i don't have to say
> anything else.  however, i'm sure some of you will be confused in the
> absence of any documentation, since i admit that some of it is pretty
> complicated. ;)
>
> in addition to adding releases, you can poke around with how releases
> interact with the issue queue, the project browsing pages, and the
> project nodes themselves.  the last 2 in particular are areas of
> future work, but you can help verify that what's there isn't any
> worse than what we already have. ;)
>
> thanks for any testing, feedback, and most importantly, code reviews!
> i can't wait to get this all committed and installed on d.o!!!
>
> -derek
>
>
> p.s.: there are a *ton* of ideas i have about new features we can
> build on top of this.  at this point, i'm not very interested in that
> -- i just want to get the basic system commited to cvs and install it
> on d.o.  please file other feature requests and ideas as separate
> issues, instead of posting replies here, or following up to the 2
> issues i linked to above.
>
>
> notes:
>
> [1] for convenience, a tarball of the latest code from those 3
> directories, with the 2 patches already applied: http://drupal-
> release.dwwright.net/files/new-release-2005-10-15.tar.gz
>
> [2] the cron job packages releases from tags every 5 minutes, and
> does the snapshots from branches every 8 hours.  for the interested
> reader, the packaging script itself is a separate issue: http://
> drupal.org/node/88056
>
>
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