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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>why you start with version 1.2.1 instead 1.2.0 ?</p>
<p>-Ulf<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 08.02.23 um 02:43 schrieb m. allan
noah:<br>
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<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>
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<div>allan<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com"
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<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>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div>On 2023-02-07 04:48, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
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<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">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>
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<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>
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<div>allan<br>
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12:32 AM Ralph Little <<a
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<div> Hi,<br>
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<div>On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
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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>
<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>
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----<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>
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Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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<div>allan<br>
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2023 at 10:44 PM m. allan noah <<a
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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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<div>allan<br>
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Feb 4, 2023 at 10:05 PM Ralph Little <<a
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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>
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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>allan<br>
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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>
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<div>On 2023-02-04 17:57, m.
allan noah wrote:<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>allan<br>
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Feb 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM m.
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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>allan<br>
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8:43 PM Ralph Little
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<div> Hi,<br>
I have prepared the
release notes
whenever you are
ready!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ralph<br>
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08:33, m. allan
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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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Tue, Jan 24,
2023, 10:47 AM
Ralph Little
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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>
<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>
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