RE: Update ARI pages

["Pierre Muller" <muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr>]

Thanks, it looks much better now
if you follow the 'last release' link
on the ARI pages.

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Joel Brobecker
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:41 PM
> To: Pierre Muller; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: Update ARI pages
> 
> > I played around with this for a bit.  Eventually I realized that
> > this is in our release checklist already.  It's right below the
> > bit that says how to update the online documentation.  Joel,
> > you've been doing that bit - any particular reason you didn't
> > do the ARI too?
> 
> No, I just missed it!
> 
> > Joel, I stumbled on the scary set of shell scripts in
> > ~gdbadmin/gdb-release.
> 
> Ah, the cat is out of the bag... I wrote these scripts in preparation
> to the gdb-6.7 release, wanted to have a couple of release cycles done
> with them before I announced them. The number of scripts is indeed
> scary, but this is mostly because there are lots of little steps to go
> through during the release. Each step pretty much has its own script
> (more or less).
> 
> The idea is that the scripts act as two things:
>   - An electronic reminder of all the actions to be done, where I need
>     to acknowledge all actions I'm supposed to do before the script
>     moves on.  This is to avoid forgetting about the ARI for
> instance...
>   - Do automatically what can easily be done automatically.
> 
> The conjunction of the two dramatically reduce the amount of time
> it takes to produce a release (creating the branch took about 1h,
> and so did producing the gdb-6.7 release).
> 
> The entry point for the scripts is one single script, called
> "release.sh".
> It knows what you've done so far, and just picks up where you left.
> 
> I am not going to write more about this for now, as this is a bit
> off topic for this thread. I intend to contribute this to GDB
> eventually
> and re-write the documentation accordingly (describe the release
> process
> as well as the internals of the scripts).
> 
> >   /bin/sh ~/ss/update-web-ari \
> >           ~ftp/pub/gdb/releases/gdb-6.7.tar.bz2 \
> >            $PWD/www \
> >            /www/sourceware/htdocs/gdb/download/ari \
> >            gdb
> 
> New script added :), so it should not be forgotten again. I ran
> the new script manually, and checked the results on the web,
> which seem fine. Let me know if there are some errors.
> 
> --
> Joel