Re: [proteowizard-developer] Release?

[Darren K. <da...@pr...>]

I think we should move to as much automated post-build testing as possible.

This is on my list of things to get going, but it's going to have to
wait a few weeks until after my Finals.

This would basically be a bunch of scripts that would test the output
of msconvert, etc. on various input files after the build.

I propose that, unless someone has time to do more, someone pushes the
"release" button once a month, and the post-build scripts will give us
more confidence in the integrity of these builds.


Darren


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Matthew Chambers
<mat...@va...> wrote:
> We have no established method for determining when a release should
> happen or collecting the changes since the last release. We could
> compile an automatic list of all SVN commits with the log comments and
> ask developers to tweak their log comments for use in release notes. But
> as for determining when a release should happen, I don't know. The way
> the release would work now, it's hardly better than using the snapshot
> builds (as long as all tests pass). It would be very hard to separate
> unstable code from stable code, and not doing that could lead to long
> delays between releases (and by the time the unstable code is stable,
> the stable code may be unstable). This is the purpose of branching to a
> release branch and only merging stable code it. This takes considerable
> effort though (Boost honors them as "release managers") and I don't know
> if any of our developers have the time to commit to it on a regular
> basis. Perhaps we need to rotate responsibility?
>
> -Matt
>
>
> Parag Mallick wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been routinely sending folks to the daily builds instead of the actual build on the website because so much has happened since that came out.  Any chance we can get a package for a formal release soonish?  Also, does there exist somewhere a list of 'this has changed since the last formal release?' sort of doc anywhere?  Lastly - now that the magic release button exists, how should releases happen?  Is there some quota of 'major change has happened' or 'X-amount of time has passed' etc?
>>
>> Thx.
>> ~ Parag M ~
>>
>
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