<div dir="ltr"><div>Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am going to make an executive decision, and rip some of this out. Once I have done this (and cleaned up the snapshot build process), I'd like to quickly release 1.2.2. Hopefully, we can end up with a release that actually builds with a proper version number, and without autotools being required.</div><div><br></div><div>allan<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 8:18 PM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>
Hi,<br>
On a slightly different note, perhaps we should consider doing a
frontends release soon.<br>
Thierry has been working on a GTK3 port of the GUI apps in there
which is going to become an issue shortly as some distros drop GTK2.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
<br>
<div>On 2023-02-07 04:48, m. allan noah
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more
time fighting with the automation than I would have spent
doing an old manual release. One of the steps there was simply
to edit <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>
and change the version number a couple of times. Seems easy
enough to 'echo $new_version > .version' or something like
that in this new scheme. I'll do some more research into how
other projects handle this.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>And, I noticed the extra comments at the top of the NEWS
file were being displayed in the release notes and manually
removed that in the gitlab UI.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 12:32
AM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
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<div> Hi,<br>
<br>
<div>On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
----<br>
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>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at
10:44 PM m. allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com" target="_blank">kitno455@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 4,
2023 at 10:05 PM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
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<div> Hi,<br>
OK, I think I have done that.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your
branch.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
<br>
<div>On 2023-02-04 18:18, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat,
Feb 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</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>
<br>
I will try to generate the release notes
from that.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
<br>
<div>On 2023-02-04 17:57, m. allan noah
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM m.
allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com" target="_blank">kitno455@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>allan<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan
28, 2023 at 8:43 PM Ralph
Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div> Hi,<br>
I have prepared the release
notes whenever you are
ready!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
<br>
<div>On 2023-01-24 08:33, m.
allan noah wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<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>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
Tue, Jan 24, 2023,
10:47 AM Ralph Little
<<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
</blockquote>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</div>
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