Documentation/Nightly/Developers/ReleaseProcess
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Create release dashboard scripts
Feature freeze
Usually ~1 month before release.
Prerequisites
- Make sure to patch VS2008 using the script fix-vc9-redist-manifests.ps1
Update modules documentation link in help section (loadable, scripted and cli)- And some html links in Welcome module (Modules/Loadable/SlicerWelcome/Resources/HTML)
Update CLI XML description files
Commit message: Update Documentation to X.Y
For example: r22407
Note: Some of this updates are not needed anymore. Indeed, following r22423 and r22424 documentation url should already reference the Nightly
namespace.
Release-candidate
Since there all development occurs on master
, each time version is updated, two commits will be required.
<RC>
corresponds to the release candidate number. It is greater or equal to one.
Update the Slicer version information for the release candidate:
In
CMakeLists.txt
, uncomment and set:Slicer_VERSION_TWEAK
to0
Slicer_VERSION_RC
to<RC>
...and if this is the first release candidate, update at least one these variables:
Slicer_VERSION_MAJOR
,Slicer_VERSION_MINOR
,Slicer_VERSION_PATCH
- Re-run CMake in order to update
Utilities/Scripts/SlicerWizard/__version__.py
. Commit the above changes using this message:
ENH: Slicer X.Y.Z-rc<RC>
- Generate packages based on REVISION associated with step 1.
Update the Slicer version information for the development:
- In
CMakeLists.txt
, commentSlicer_VERSION_TWEAK
so that the next builds will contain the date associated with the last commit. - Re-run CMake in order to update
Utilities/Scripts/SlicerWizard/__version__.py
. Commit the above changes using this message:
ENH: Begin post-X.Y.Z-rc<RC> development
- In
Release
Since there all development occurs on master
, each time version is updated, two commits will be required.
Update the Slicer version information for the release:
In
CMakeLists.txt
, uncomment and setSlicer_VERSION_TWEAK
to0
...and if this no release candidate has been made, update at least one these variables:
Slicer_VERSION_MAJOR
,Slicer_VERSION_MINOR
,Slicer_VERSION_PATCH
- Re-run CMake in order to update
Utilities/Scripts/SlicerWizard/__version__.py
. Commit the above changes using this message:
ENH: Slicer X.Y.Z
- Generate packages based on REVISION associated with step 1.
Tag the repository:
svn copy -r<REVISION> http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk \ http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/tags/Slicer-X-Y \ -m "ENH: Tag of X.Y.Z release based on r<REVISION>."
Update the Slicer version information for the development:
In
CMakeLists.txt
, comment and set:Slicer_VERSION_TWEAK
to0
so that the next builds will contain the date associated with the last commit.Slicer_VERSION_RC
to0
- Re-run CMake in order to update
Utilities/Scripts/SlicerWizard/__version__.py
. Commit the above changes using this message:
ENH: Begin post-X.Y.Z development
Post release
Create a release branch
svn copy -r <REVISION> http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/branches/Slicer-X-Y \ -m "ENH: Branching from trunk to Slicer-X-Y at <REVISION>"
svn checkout http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/branches/Slicer-X-Y
Generate ChangeLog
- See gitlog2changelog.py. More details here.
- Update Release Details page using generated ChangeLog
Update Mantis
- "Release" current target
- Create new target
- Check the "fixed in" fields
Midas
Tag release packages
- If needed, create a X.Y.Z folder in Slicer/Packages/Application/Release
- Copy uploaded packages into the folder created above
- Identify the item_id associated with uploaded packages. For example: 11926, 11925, 11927, 11992
- SSH connect to
jcfr@slicer.kitware.com
- Connect to mysql using
mysql -u midas -p
- See file
/var/www/midas3/core/configs/database.local.ini
for password - Choose midas database:
use midas
- See file
- List packages associated with identified items and check they are the appropriate ones:
select * from slicerpackages_package as p , item as i where i.item_id = p.item_id and p.item_id in (11926, 11925, 11927, 11992);
- Set release field
update slicerpackages_package set `release`="4.2.2-1" where item_id in (11926, 11925, 11927, 11992);
Version NA-MIC data tree
Create an account on the extension server and obtain an API Key. You will then use your midas login and api key to substitute
<YOUR-MIDAS-LOGIN>
and<YOUR-MIDAS-APIKEY>
in the examples.If not already done, go to NA-MIC community and click on
Join community
Send an email on the developer list asking to be added to the
DataManager
group on NA-MIC community. That will grant you read/write permissions to theData
folder and sub-folders.Install prerequisites
$ pip install pydas
Identify
id
of theData
folder. For example 301Simulate creation of
X.Y
data folders basedNightly
ones$ cd /path/to/Slicer/Base/Python/slicer/release $ python midasdata.py --url=http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3 --data_id=301 \ --email=<YOUR-MIDAS-LOGIN> --apikey=<YOUR-MIDAS-APIKEY> --source_version=Nightly --dest_version=X.Y --dry-run Application ( folder_id: 302 ) '-Nightly ( folder_id: 831 ) '-'-Testing ( folder_id: 832 ) '-'-'-Baseline ( folder_id: 889 ) '-'-'-'-DiffusionTensorImagingTutorial.png ( item_id: 12067 ) '-'-'-'-NeurosurgicalPlanningTutorial.png ( item_id: 12066 ) '-'-'-'-SlicerTestingTest.png ( item_id: 17760 ) '-'-'-Input ( folder_id: 833 ) '-'-'-'-AtlasTests ( folder_id: 834 ) '-'-'-'-'-2012-10-26-BrainAtlas.mrb ( item_id: 10276 ) [...] Module: VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilter ( folder_id: 1491 ) '-Nightly ( folder_id: 1491 ) '-'-Testing ( folder_id: 1492 ) '-'-'-Baseline ( folder_id: 1493 ) '-'-'-'-VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilterTest.nhdr ( item_id: 103418 ) '-'-'-'-VotingBinaryHoleFillingImageFilterTest.raw.gz ( item_id: 103419 )
Create
X.Y
data tree basedNightly
ones$ python midasdata.py --url=http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3 --data_id=301 \ --email=<YOUR-MIDAS-LOGIN> --apikey=<YOUR-MIDAS-APIKEY> --source_version=Nightly --dest_version=X.Y Versioning of the NA-MIC Data tree for release X.Y... Versioning Modules... [...] Versioning Modules...[DONE] Versioning Application... Creating folder X.Y under Application directory Duplicating subfolders from Nightly to X.Y... Duplicating subfolders from Nightly to X.Y...[DONE] Versioning Application...[DONE] Versioning of the NA-MIC Data tree for release X.Y...[DONE]
Update Slicer wiki
The copy of the pages associated with the Nightly
namespace into the X.Y
namespace is done using the convenience python module mwdoc.
Check with <email>jchris.fillionr@kitware.com</email> to get the credential associated with
UpdateBot
user.-
Copy
Nightly
pages intoX.Y
pages.$ cd ~/Projects $ sudo pip install mwclient==0.6.5 $ git clone git://github.com/jcfr/mwdoc $ cd mwdoc $ python >>> import mwdoc >>> doc = mwdoc.Documentation('slicer.org', '/slicerWiki/') >>> doc.login('UpdateBot', 'XXXXXXX') >>> doc.versionPages('Nightly', '4.3', ['Documentation', 'Template:Documentation']) [INFO] Page successfully created: 'Documentation/4.3/Extensions/ErodeDilateLabel' [...] [INFO] Page successfully created: 'Template:Documentation/4.3/module-header' [INFO] Page successfully created: 'Template:Documentation/4.3/module-section' [INFO] Page successfully created: 'Template:Documentation/4.3/module/footer'
Update FAQ
Update Documentation
Update Documentation/Release
Update Documentation/UserTraining
Update Documentation/UserFeedback
Update Documentation/Release/SlicerApplication/HardwareConfiguration
CDash
Create new CDash groups for extension submissions associated with
X.Y
release:Extensions-X.Y-Nightly Extensions-X.Y-Continuous
ExtensionsIndex
See https://github.com/Slicer/ExtensionsIndex
1) Create branch X.Y based of master
Update external website
Tag associated projects
- Slicer/SlicerExecutionModel
- Slicer/VTK
- Slicer/ITK
- commontk/CTK ?
- commontk/PythonQt ?
Update User Survey
Title of the survey should be updated. See https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rggxoTV5KL_vt3gX9BNNAcKH4pnL5lkMqPnklOThINg
Sign packages
MacOSX
As discussed in issue #3965, the code signing command is of the form:
codesign --deep --force --sign "Developer ID Application: ..." ./Slicer.app
where the argument to --sign
is the name of the developer's certificate in Mac OS X Keychain.app .
Backport commit into release branch
The following steps will lead to the creation of new git-svn clone having two branches:
git-svn
git-svn-XY
Reference: http://www.dmo.ca/blog/20070608113513/
Step 1: Checkout sources
git clone git://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git Slicer-X.Y cd Slicer-X.Y git svn init http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn refs/remotes/origin/master git checkout master git svn rebase
Step 2: Add release branch remote
Edit .git/config
, and in addition to the existing 'git-svn' remote, add the following one:
[svn-remote "svn-XY"] url = http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/branches/Slicer-X-Y fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-XY
Step 3: Pull associated SVN branch
git svn fetch svn-XY git checkout -b master-XY git-svn-XY
Step 4: Backport
We can now cherry pick commit associated with master (trunk) into master-XY
(Slicer-X-Y)
Step 5: Create a patch release