Revision as of 18:23, 15 June 2011

Before the Release

Prepare Source Code

Internationalize Messages

• Run Source > Find Broken Externalized Strings over all bundles
• Run Source > Externalize Strings over all bundles

Update User Guide from the Wiki

• Run org.eclipse.mylyn.help.ui/build-helper.xml as an Ant Build (ensure org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext* is checked out into your workspace)
• Review the user guide and commit changes to CVS

Update Copyright Notices

• Update the year in the about.ini to the current year
• Update the year in all feature.xml files to the current year for changed features
• Update the year in copyright notices of changed source files: Install platform releng tools, Project context menu > Fix Copyrights

Backport changes to the Platform Specific Branches

• Switch to branch
• Select branched plug-ins, Team > Merge
  • End tag: HEAD
  • Start tag: Merged_e_3_4_m_3_x
  • Select Preview the merge in the synchronize perspective
  • Merge changes and resolve conflicts
  • Commit
• Switch to head,
• Tag branched plug-ins as Merged_e_3_4_m_3_x

Run Tests

• Trigger a nightly build or run the AllTests suite

The Release

Update Target

• Update target files to point to release sites

Tag Sources

• Tag the release as R_x_y_z (and R_x_y_z_e_3_3 if plug-ins are branched)

Prepare Build Environment

Checkout Sources

ssh [user]@build.eclipse.org
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/mylyn co .
ln -s org.eclipse.mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.releng ~/releng
org.eclipse.mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.releng/integration-build/prepare.sh
cd org.eclipse.mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.releng

• Make sure your have Java 5.0 or later in your path. Settings for $HOME/.bashrc on build.eclipse.org:

export JAVA_HOME=/shared/tools/mylyn/tools/jdk

Build

• Release build:

TYPE=release TIMESTAMP=20110608-1400 mvn -f org.eclipse.mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.releng/pom.xml clean deploy 

• Snapshot build:

TYPE=weekly mvn -f org.eclipse.mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.releng/pom.xml clean deploy

Verify Update Site Contents

• Check that only approved features are on the update site
• Check that all Orbit bundles are tracked on approved CQs

Test Install

• Do a test install from http://download.eclipse.org/mylyn/snapshots/weekly

== Remove Old Integration Builds

rm ~/downloads/mylyn/archive/3.6.0/I*

Add Mirror URLs

cd ~/downloads/mylyn/archive/3.6.0/
~/releng/bin/update-metadata.sh

• Check that the content.jar contains the following property:

<property name="p2.mirrorsURL" value="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/mylyn/archive/.../v.../&protocol=http&format=xml"/>

Copy Release to archive.eclipes.org

cp ~/downloads/mylyn/archive/3.6.0 /home/data/httpd/archive.eclipse.org/mylyn/archive

Update Release Repository Content

• Update filters in ~/downloads/mylyn/releases/*/composite.index
• Update release composite sites

cd ~/downloads/mylyn/releases/
~/releng/bin/create-composite.sh -r

• Update snapshot composite sites

cd ~/downloads/mylyn/snapshots/
~/releng/bin/create-composite.sh -r

Update Website

• Update the version number on download page
• Create a new section on download archive page
• Add a link to the new API baseline on the download archive page (major releases only)
• Create a new section in the New & Noteworthy

Update Babel

• Make release available in Eclipse Babel for translation (major releases only)

After the Release

Update Versions