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diff --git a/.travis/README.md b/.travis/README.md index 5a51b2a7c..e37e9feff 100644 --- a/.travis/README.md +++ b/.travis/README.md @@ -29,40 +29,43 @@ installations of netdata. Jobs are run on following operating systems: - CentOS 7 (containerized) - alpine (containerized) -### Release +### Packaging This stage is executed only on "master" brach and allows us to create a new tag just looking at git commit message. -It also has an option to automatically generate changelog based on GitHub labels and sync it with GitHub release. -For the sake of simplicity and to use travis features this stage cannot be integrated with next stage. - -Releases are generated by searching for a keyword in last commit message. Keywords are: - - [patch] or [fix] to bump patch number - - [minor], [feature] or [feat] to bump minor number - - [major] or [breaking change] to bump major number -All keywords MUST be surrounded with square braces. -Alternative is to push a tag to master branch. - -### Packaging +It executes one script called `releaser.sh` which is responsible for creating a release on GitHub by using +[hub](https://github.com/github/hub). This script is also executing other scripts which can also be used in other +CI jobs: + - `tagger.sh` + - `generate_changelog.sh` + - `build.sh` + - `create_artifacts.sh` -This stage is executed only on "master" branch and it is separated into 3 jobs: - - Update Changelog/Create release - - Nightly tarball and self-extractor build - - Nightly docker images +Alternatively new release can be also created by pushing new tag to master branch. -##### Update Changelog/Create release +##### tagger.sh -This job is running one script called `releaser.sh`, which is responsible for a couple of things. First of all it -automatically updates our CHANGELOG.md file based on GitHub features (mostly labels and pull requests). Apart from -that it can also create a new git tag and a github draft release connected to that tag. -Releases are generated by searching for a keyword in last commit message. Keywords are: +Script responsible to find out what will be the next tag based on a keyword in last commit message. Keywords are: - `[netdata patch release]` to bump patch number - `[netdata minor release]` to bump minor number - `[netdata major release]` to bump major number + - `[netdata release candidate]` to create a new release candidate (appends or modifies suffix `-rcX` of previous tag) All keywords MUST be surrounded with square brackets. +Tag is then stored in `GIT_TAG` variable. -Alternatively new release can be also created by pushing new tag to master branch. +##### generate_changelog.sh -##### Nightly tarball and self-extractor build AND Nightly docker images +Automatic changelog generator which updates our CHANGELOG.md file based on GitHub features (mostly labels and pull +requests). Internally it uses +[github-changelog-generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator) and more +information can be found on that project site. + +##### build.sh and create_artifacts.sh + +Scripts used to build new container images and provide release artifacts (tar.gz and makeself archives) + +### Nightlies + +##### Tarball and self-extractor build AND Nightly docker images As names might suggest those two jobs are responsible for nightly netdata package creation and are run every day (in cron). Combined they produce: @@ -70,11 +73,16 @@ cron). Combined they produce: - tar.gz archive (soon to be removed) - self-extracting package -Currently "Nightly tarball and self-extractor build" is using old firehol script and it is planed to be replaced with -new design. +This is achieved by running 2 scripts described earlier: + - `create_artifacts.sh` + - `build.sh` -##### Nightly changelog generation +##### Changelog generation This job is responsible for regenerating changelog every day by executing `generate_changelog.sh` script. This is done only once a day due to github rate limiter. +##### Labeler + +Once a day we are doing automatic label assignment by executing `labeler.sh`. This script is a temporary workaround until +we start using GitHub Actions. For more information what it is currently doing go to its code. |