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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah
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<div>Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen
--prefix '' .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems
like our release process might be leaving out some steps. I
guess I'll dig more tomorrow.</div>
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IIRC, this has been a long-standing issue with the tar file included
in the GitLab release artifacts, in that they don't build. You have
to instead get the snapshot file.<br>
I don't know how long it has been like that but we do get a
complaint every now again. I keep trying to remember to figure out
what is going on to do something about it.<br>
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If it is the thing that I am thinking about, it might also be the
thing that always stuffs me up in the release PPA because the orig
tar file requires an extra .gitversion file with the release version
in it, otherwise it won't build when it is uploaded.<br>
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We really need to get our collective heads together and fix it. I
don't pretend to really understand what the issue is though. Build
systems aren't really my thing.<br>
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As an aside, the release page seems to have some weird guff from the
top of the NEWS file in there. Not really sure what caused that. It
is some of the comment material. :`(<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:44
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<div>So, I was able to do the release on time (after filling
in a few blanks in our documentation). But I only did the
website updates tonight. I seem to have run into a small
problem there- when I download the release tarball, and
run ./autogen.sh, i get a ./configure file which has
'UNKNOWN' as the package version number. This also happens
with 1.1.1 as well. Is this happening for anyone else?</div>
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10:05 PM Ralph Little <<a
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<div> Hi,<br>
OK, I think I have done that.<br>
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Because we are short on time I cut and pasted the
release note fragments from my spreadsheet into the NEWS
file with Apostrophe MD file editor and whipped them
into shape manually.<br>
First time using it and it is pretty good. Obviously,
this was a manual process, but it wasn't too onerous.<br>
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I couldn't get the towncrier thingy to work anyway. I
don't really have much experience with python and pip.
Python seems an awful lot more complicated since the
last time I used it :(<br>
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I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your branch.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div>Awesome, thanks! I'm working on updating
doc/releases.md, which I find to be hard to use.
Maybe if you keep some notes on what you did, I
can incorporate your method instead of towncrier.</div>
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<div> Hi,<br>
In this case I didn't generate the towncrier
files. It's a lot of faff if you don't do it as
you go along.<br>
I just put them into a spreadsheet.<br>
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I will try to generate the release notes from
that.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div>I have pushed a branch called
'release-1.2.x'. I don't have this
'towncrier' thing, so maybe you can run
that and merge the release notes?</div>
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<div>Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take
a first stab at it on the 4th, and see
if I can follow our current
instructions.</div>
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<div> Hi,<br>
I have prepared the release notes
whenever you are ready!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div dir="auto">Sounds good to me,
thanks for your help. I'm
traveling this week, and won't
be able to work on this until
the weekend.</div>
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24, 2023, 10:47 AM Ralph
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On 2023-01-01 15:54, m. allan
noah wrote:<br>
> It has been nearly a year
since our last release, and
there have been <br>
> many changes and bug
fixes. I'd like to get 1.2.1
released in early <br>
> February. I've not done
it in a few years, but I am
certainly willing <br>
> to make the release
package.<br>
><br>
> Any objections to a code
freeze on Jan 22, and a
release on Feb 5?<br>
><br>
> allan<br>
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I think if we are going for
your proposed plan, then we
are official in <br>
code freeze for 1.2.1.<br>
If you want to proceed, I can
prepare release notes.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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