Re: Making releases

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 16 March 2011 19:59, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, so an extra target is needed. I used to use "make release". This
>>> would seem to make sense to cover uploading and announcing the
>>> release.
>>
>> There's already a target (or three) for that:
>> alpha, beta, stable.
>
> Fine, provided I can still just use one hook. Would I still call it
> "release-hook"?

Actually, there may be no need for a hook per se.

>> Actually, there's already the release-prep-hook variable.
>
> Sure, but announcing is not release-prep. In particular, the rule
> should only be executed if the release and upload succeeded.
>
>>>> I'm not terribly gung-ho on making the process completely
>>>> non-interactive, so haven't pursued this, but if you find
>>>> a noninvasive way (or one that's universally accepted by maintainers who
>>>> use these rules) to make it do what you want, propose a patch.
>>>
>>> I'm not trying to make the process interactive, I'm trying to reduce
>>
>> You meant s/interactive/non-interactive/, I suppose.
>
> No, I meant what I said. I prefer a non-interactive process, but in
> this case, at least one bit of interaction is needed, namely typing
> one's GPG passphrase.
>
>> I generally prefer to avoid a recipe that prompts me for things.
>
> Me too. What I was saying is that I'd like to have a target, which
> I'll call "reuben-stable" for the sake of argument, such that
>
> make reuben-stable
>
> does the same as stable, plus uploading and sending announcements.
> (Uploading involves a prompt, of necessity.)

If you require no change to an existing rule,
then you can simply write your rule in cfg.mk:

reuben-stable:
        $(MAKE) stable
        $(MAKE) upload
        $(MAKE) send-announcement

But you'll want a delay between the upload and the actual announcement.
At least when uploading to ftp.gnu.org, you have to wait for a while
(10-20m) and sometimes for a long while (days) if you're a first-time
uploader and your key is not yet on file.

This suggests an added rule, where verify-uploads would wait for URLs
to become valid, and when they do, download each tarball/signature pair
and gpg --verify them:

reuben-stable:
        $(MAKE) stable
        $(MAKE) upload
        $(MAKE) verify-uploads
        $(MAKE) send-announcement