wiki:SysAdmin/ReleaseProcess

Version 22 (modified by Fran Boon, 15 years ago) ( diff )

Tweaks

Release Process

When making a Stable Branch from which to build releases, we need to do these tasks:

Check that all works with a released version of Web2Py

Ensure included files sane:

  • README
  • VERSION (updated automatically by Bzr start-commit hook)
  • INSTALL
  • CHANGELOG

Compress JS & CSS files

Browsers default to only downloading 2 files from the same origin at a time, so many files is very slow on high latency links.
We therefore consolidate into fewer, larger files when running in Production mode.

Since GIS is a specialised app which requires many files, it's JS & CSS are loaded separately when required.

The build script is static/scripts/tools/build.sahana.py
There is also a convenience wrapper for Windows to run this & also move results into their respective locations: static/scripts/tools/build.cmd

NB sahana.css is built from template.css so that Themes can be updated dynamically from the WebUI

Need to remove the '@' from '@requires' in header of /static/S3/jquery.form.js as we need to compress this without the main file.

Our build process is based on the one used by MapFish (which is built on the one used by OpenLayers)

ToDo: Investigate using other options instead:

Clear Database

To clear database of test data & reset to defaults:

  • Close Web2Py
  • Delete all files from /databases
  • Delete all files from /errors
  • Delete all files from /sessions

NB This assumes that all required settings are being generated upon intialisation as per the Framework

Export Application

Upload to LaunchPad

Update Wiki InstallationGuide

Update Demo

Ideas

OpenBSD Release Process is good for us to learn from:


DeveloperGuidelines

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