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CMake Maintainer Guide
**********************
The following is a guide to CMake maintenance processes.
See documentation on `CMake Development`_ for more information.
.. _`CMake Development`: README.rst
.. contents:: Maintainer Processes:
Review a Merge Request
======================
The `CMake Review Process`_ requires a maintainer to issue the ``Do: merge``
command to integrate a merge request. Please check at least the following:
* If the MR source branch is not named well for the change it makes
(e.g. it is just ``master`` or the patch changed during review),
add a ``Topic-rename: <topic>`` trailing line to the MR description
to provide a better topic name.
* If the MR introduces a new feature or a user-facing behavior change,
such as a policy, ensure that a ``Help/release/dev/$topic.rst`` file
is added with a release note.
* If a commit changes a specific area, such as a module, its commit
message should have an ``area:`` prefix on its first line.
* If a commit fixes a tracked issue, its commit message should have
a trailing line such as ``Fixes: #00000``.
* Ensure that the MR adds sufficient documentation and test cases.
* Ensure that the MR has been tested sufficiently. Typically it should
be staged for nightly testing with ``Do: stage``. Then manually
review the `CMake CDash Page`_ to verify that no regressions were
introduced. (Learn to tolerate spurious failures due to idiosyncrasies
of various nightly builders.)
* Ensure that the MR targets the ``master`` branch. A MR intended for
the ``release`` branch should be based on ``release`` but still merged
to ``master`` first (via ``Do: merge``). A maintainer may then merge
the MR topic to ``release`` manually.
Maintain Current Release
========================
The ``release`` branch is used to maintain the current release or release
candidate. The branch is published with no version number but maintained
using a local branch named ``release-$ver``, where ``$ver`` is the version
number of the current release in the form ``$major.$minor``. It is always
merged into ``master`` before publishing.
To merge some ``$topic`` branch into ``release``, first create the local
branch:
.. code-block:: shell
git fetch origin
git checkout -b release-$ver origin/release
Merge the ``$topic`` branch into the local ``release-$ver`` branch:
.. code-block:: shell
git merge --no-ff $topic
Merge the ``release-$ver`` branch to ``master``:
.. code-block:: shell
git checkout master
git pull
git merge --no-ff release-$ver
Review new ancestry to ensure nothing unexpected was merged to either branch:
.. code-block:: shell
git log --graph --boundary origin/master..master
git log --graph --boundary origin/release..release-$ver
Publish both ``master`` and ``release`` simultaneously:
.. code-block:: shell
git push --atomic origin master release-$ver:release
.. _`CMake Review Process`: review.rst
.. _`CMake CDash Page`: https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake
Branch a New Release
====================
This section covers how to start a new ``release`` branch for a major or
minor version bump (patch releases remain on their existing branch).
In the following we use the placeholder ``$ver`` to represent the
version number of the new release with the form ``$major.$minor``,
and ``$prev`` to represent the version number of the prior release.
Review Prior Release
--------------------
Review the history around the prior release branch:
.. code-block:: shell
git log --graph --boundary \
^$(git rev-list --grep="Merge topic 'doc-.*-relnotes'" -n 1 master)~1 \
$(git rev-list --grep="Begin post-.* development" -n 1 master) \
$(git tag --list *-rc1| tail -1)
Consolidate Release Notes
-------------------------
Starting from a clean work tree on ``master``, create a topic branch to
use for consolidating the release notes:
.. code-block:: shell
git checkout -b doc-$ver-relnotes
Run the `consolidate-relnotes.bash`_ script:
.. code-block:: shell
Utilities/Release/consolidate-relnotes.bash $ver $prev
.. _`consolidate-relnotes.bash`: ../../Utilities/Release/consolidate-relnotes.bash
This moves notes from the ``Help/release/dev/*.rst`` files into a versioned
``Help/release/$ver.rst`` file and updates ``Help/release/index.rst`` to
link to the new document. Commit the changes with a message such as::
Help: Consolidate $ver release notes
Run the `Utilities/Release/consolidate-relnotes.bash` script to move
notes from `Help/release/dev/*` into `Help/release/$ver.rst`.
Manually edit ``Help/release/$ver.rst`` to add section headers, organize
the notes, and revise wording. Then commit with a message such as::
Help: Organize and revise $ver release notes
Add section headers similar to the $prev release notes and move each
individual bullet into an appropriate section. Revise a few bullets.
Open a merge request with the ``doc-$ver-relnotes`` branch for review
and integration. Further steps may proceed after this has been merged
to ``master``.
Update 'release' Branch
-----------------------
Starting from a clean work tree on ``master``, create a new ``release-$ver``
branch locally:
.. code-block:: shell
git checkout -b release-$ver origin/master
Remove the development branch release note infrastructure:
.. code-block:: shell
git rm Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
sed -i '/^\.\. include:: dev.txt/ {N;d}' Help/release/index.rst
Commit with a message such as::
Help: Drop development topic notes to prepare release
Release versions do not have the development topic section of
the CMake Release Notes index page.
Update ``Source/CMakeVersion.cmake`` to set the version to
``$major.$minor.0-rc1``:
.. code-block:: cmake
# CMake version number components.
set(CMake_VERSION_MAJOR $major)
set(CMake_VERSION_MINOR $minor)
set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 0)
set(CMake_VERSION_RC 1)
Update ``Utilities/Release/upload_release.cmake``:
.. code-block:: cmake
set(VERSION $ver)
Update uses of ``DEVEL_CMAKE_VERSION`` in the source tree to mention the
actual version number:
.. code-block:: shell
$EDITOR $(git grep -l DEVEL_CMAKE_VERSION)
Commit with a message such as::
CMake $major.$minor.0-rc1 version update
Merge the ``release-$ver`` branch to ``master``:
.. code-block:: shell
git checkout master
git pull
git merge --no-ff release-$ver
Begin post-release development by restoring the development branch release
note infrastructure and the version date from ``origin/master``:
.. code-block:: shell
git checkout origin/master -- \
Source/CMakeVersion.cmake Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
sed -i $'/^Releases/ i\\\n.. include:: dev.txt\\\n' Help/release/index.rst
Update ``Source/CMakeVersion.cmake`` to set the version to
``$major.$minor.$date``:
.. code-block:: cmake
# CMake version number components.
set(CMake_VERSION_MAJOR $major)
set(CMake_VERSION_MINOR $minor)
set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH $date)
#set(CMake_VERSION_RC 1)
Commit with a message such as::
Begin post-$ver development
Push the update to the ``master`` and ``release`` branches:
.. code-block:: shell
git push --atomic origin master release-$ver:release
Announce 'release' Branch
-------------------------
Send email to the ``cmake-developers@cmake.org`` mailing list (perhaps
in reply to a release preparation thread) announcing that post-release
development is open::
I've branched 'release' for $ver. The repository is now open for
post-$ver development. Please rebase open merge requests on 'master'
before staging or merging.