Trace Compass/Incubator/Handling releases

Note: The contents of this page is obsolete and is migrated to Trace Compass Wiki.

When...

...There is a new release of Trace Compass (mainline, project o.e.t)

Create the incubator repositories and updates site where Trace Compass will point

1- Go to jenkins (https://ci.eclipse.org/tracecompass/) jobs:

2- find:

- tracecompass-incubator-stable-base: (in config set "Branches to build" to be master, at this point, there is no API breakage, master works)
- tracecompass-incubator-stable: In the job configuration, update the following parameters:

  GERRIT_BRANCH_NAME should match the branch in the stable-base job: ie master until there is API breakage
  SITE_DESTINATION Change the part of the path that represents the stable version to the appropriate one: for instance stable-6.2
  JAVADOC_DESTINATION Change the part of the path that represents the stable version to the appropriate one: for instance stable-6.2

3- On next build, the update site will be created and ready to serve incubator plugins

In the Trace Compass repo (o.e.t), add commit to point to incubator site. See commit with id 8177bcde3ac90a055b87c20ddcff0f26967fc175

ex -To install features from the Trace Compass incubator, use the following update site URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/master/repository/. +To install features from the Trace Compass incubator, use the following update site URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/stable-6.1/repository/.

ex -Optionally, one can also install the incubator features using the following update site URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/master/repository/. +Optionally, one can also install the incubator features using the following update site URL: https://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/stable-6.1/repository/.

== Update incubator features ==

- value="http://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/master/repository/"> + value="http://download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/stable-6.1/repository/">

-org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.addRepository(location:http${#58}//download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/master/repository,type:0,name:Trace Compass Incubator,enabled:false); \ -org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.addRepository(location:http${#58}//download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/master/repository,type:1,name:Trace Compass Incubator,enabled:false); +org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.addRepository(location:http${#58}//download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/stable-6.1/repository,type:0,name:Trace Compass Incubator,enabled:false); \ +org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.addRepository(location:http${#58}//download.eclipse.org/tracecompass.incubator/stable-6.1/repository,type:1,name:Trace Compass Incubator,enabled:false);

Set tag.

to change from the incubator.

... There is API breakage in the master branch

The master branch of the incubator will not work with the stable version anymore. All changes are done in the o.e.t.i repository

Create the stable branch. For example

  $ git checkout -b stable-6.2
  $ git push origin stable-6.2

Update the incubator-stable jobs to point to the stable branch