mesa/docs/releasing.rst
Eric Engestrom fa10735da3 docs/releasing: fix instructions to create a branch from a tag
Not sure if it used to work, but it doesn't anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@igalia.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/19536>
2022-11-14 20:06:44 +00:00

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Releasing Process
=================
Overview
--------
This document uses the convention X.Y.Z for the release number with X.Y
being the stable branch name.
Mesa provides feature and bugfix releases. Former use zero as patch
version (Z), while the latter have a non-zero one.
For example:
::
Mesa 10.1.0 - 10.1 branch, feature
Mesa 10.1.4 - 10.1 branch, bugfix
Mesa 12.0.0 - 12.0 branch, feature
Mesa 12.0.2 - 12.0 branch, bugfix
.. _schedule:
Release schedule
----------------
Releases should happen on Wednesdays. Delays can occur although those
should be kept to a minimum.
See our :doc:`calendar <release-calendar>` for information about how
the release schedule is planned, and the date and other details for
individual releases.
Feature releases
----------------
- Available approximately every three months.
- Feature releases are branched on or around the second Wednesday of
January, April, July, and October.
- Initial time plan available 2-4 weeks before the planned branchpoint
(rc1) on the mesa-announce@ mailing list.
- Typically, the final release will happen after 4 candidates.
Additional ones may be needed in order to resolve blocking
regressions, though.
Stable releases
---------------
- Normally available once every two weeks.
- Only the latest branch has releases. See note below.
.. note::
There is one or two releases overlap when changing branches. For
example:
The final release from the 12.0 series Mesa 12.0.5 will be out around
the same time (or shortly after) 13.0.1 is out.
This also involves that, as a final release may be delayed due to the
need of additional candidates to solve some blocking regression(s), the
release manager might have to update the
:doc:`calendar <release-calendar>` with additional bug fix releases of
the current stable branch.
.. _pickntest:
Cherry-picking and testing
--------------------------
Commits nominated for the active branch are picked as based on the
:ref:`criteria <criteria>` as described in the same
section.
Nominations happen via special tags in the commit messages, and via
GitLab merge requests against the staging branches. There are special
scripts used to read the tags.
The maintainer should watch or be in contact with the Intel CI team, as
well as watch the GitLab CI for regressions.
Cherry picking should be done with the '-x' switch (to automatically add
"cherry picked from ..." to the commit message):
``git cherry-pick -x abcdef12345667890``
Developers can request, *as an exception*, patches to be applied up-to
the last one hour before the actual release. This is made **only** with
explicit permission/request, and the patch **must** be very well
contained. Thus it cannot affect more than one driver/subsystem.
Following developers have requested permanent exception
- *Ilia Mirkin*
- *AMD team*
The GitLab CI must pass.
For Windows related changes, the main contact point is Brian Paul. Jose
Fonseca can also help as a fallback contact.
For Android related changes, the main contact is Tapani Pälli. Mauro
Rossi is collaborating with Android-x86 and may provide feedback about
the build status in that project.
For MacOSX related changes, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia is currently a
good contact point.
.. note::
If a patch in the current queue needs any additional fix(es),
then they should be squashed together. The commit messages and the
"``cherry picked from``"-tags must be preserved.
.. code-block:: console
git show b10859ec41d09c57663a258f43fe57c12332698e
commit b10859ec41d09c57663a258f43fe57c12332698e
Author: Jonas Pfeil <pfeiljonas@gmx.de>
Date: Wed Mar 1 18:11:10 2017 +0100
ralloc: Make sure ralloc() allocations match malloc()'s alignment.
The header of ralloc needs to be aligned, because the compiler assumes
...
(cherry picked from commit cd2b55e536dc806f9358f71db438dd9c246cdb14)
Squashed with commit:
ralloc: don't leave out the alignment factor
Experimentation shows that without alignment factor GCC and Clang choose
...
(cherry picked from commit ff494fe999510ea40e3ed5827e7818550b6de126)
Regression/functionality testing
--------------------------------
- *no regressions should be observed for Piglit/dEQP/CTS/Vulkan on
Intel platforms*
- *no regressions should be observed for Piglit using the Softpipe
and LLVMpipe drivers*
.. _stagingbranch:
Staging branch
--------------
A live branch, which contains the currently merge/rejected patches is
available in the main repository under ``staging/X.Y``. For example:
::
staging/18.1 - WIP branch for the 18.1 series
staging/18.2 - WIP branch for the 18.2 series
Notes:
- People are encouraged to test the staging branch and report
regressions.
- The branch history is not stable and it **will** be rebased,
Making a branchpoint
--------------------
A branchpoint is made such that new development can continue in parallel
to stabilization and bugfixing.
.. note::
Before doing a branch ensure that basic build and ``meson test``
testing is done and there are little to-no issues. Ideally all of those
should be tackled already.
To setup the branchpoint:
.. code-block:: console
git fetch origin # make sure we have the latest commits
git checkout main # make sure we're on main
git reset origin # make sure we're at the latest commit
VERSION=X.Y
git tag -s $VERSION-branchpoint -m "Mesa $VERSION branchpoint"
# Make sure main can carry on at the new version
$EDITOR VERSION # bump the version number, keeping in mind the wrap around at the end of the year
git commit -asm 'VERSION: bump to X.(Y+1)'
truncate -s0 docs/relnotes/new_features.txt
git commit -asm 'docs: reset new_features.txt'
git push origin main
# Create the tag and branches on the server
git push origin $VERSION-branchpoint
git checkout $VERSION-branchpoint
git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/$VERSION
git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/staging/$VERSION
Now go to
`GitLab <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/milestones>`__ and
add the new Mesa version X.Y.
Check that there are no distribution breaking changes and revert them if
needed. For example: files being overwritten on install, etc. Happens
extremely rarely - we had only one case so far (see commit
2ced8eb136528914e1bf4e000dea06a9d53c7e04).
Making a new release
--------------------
These are the instructions for making a new Mesa release.
Get latest source files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ensure the latest code is available - both in your local main and the
relevant branch.
Perform basic testing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Most of the testing should already be done during the
:ref:`cherry-pick <pickntest>` So we do a quick 'touch test'
- meson dist
- the produced binaries work
Here is one solution:
.. code-block:: console
__glxgears_cmd='glxgears 2>&1 | grep -v "configuration file"'
__es2info_cmd='es2_info 2>&1 | egrep "GL_VERSION|GL_RENDERER|.*dri\.so"'
__es2gears_cmd='es2gears_x11 2>&1 | grep -v "configuration file"'
test "x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" != 'x' && __old_ld="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/:"${__old_ld}"
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=`pwd`/test/usr/local/lib/dri/
export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
eval $__glxinfo_cmd
eval $__glxgears_cmd
eval $__es2info_cmd
eval $__es2gears_cmd
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true
eval $__glxinfo_cmd
eval $__glxgears_cmd
eval $__es2info_cmd
eval $__es2gears_cmd
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true
export GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe
eval $__glxinfo_cmd
eval $__glxgears_cmd
eval $__es2info_cmd
eval $__es2gears_cmd
# Smoke test DOTA2
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
test "x$__old_ld" != 'x' && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$__old_ld" && unset __old_ld
unset LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
unset LIBGL_DEBUG
unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE
unset GALLIUM_DRIVER
export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=`pwd`/test/usr/local/share/vulkan/icd.d/intel_icd.x86_64.json
steam steam://rungameid/570 -vconsole -vulkan
unset VK_ICD_FILENAMES
Create release notes for the new release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The release notes are completely generated by the
``bin/gen_release_notes.py`` script. Simply run this script **before**
bumping the version. You'll need to come back to this file once the
tarball is generated to add its SHA256 checksum.
Increment the version contained in the file ``VERSION`` at Mesa's top-level,
then commit this change and **push the branch** (if you forget to do
this, ``release.sh`` below will fail).
Use the release.sh script from X.Org `util-modular <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular>`__
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Start the release process.
.. code-block:: console
../relative/path/to/release.sh . # append --dist if you've already done distcheck above
Pay close attention to the prompts as you might be required to enter
your GPG and SSH passphrase(s) to sign and upload the files,
respectively.
Ensure that you do sign the tarballs, that your key is mentioned in the
release notes, and is published in `release-maintainers-keys.asc
<release-maintainers-keys.asc>`__.
Add the SHA256 checksums to the release notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edit ``docs/relnotes/X.Y.Z.rst`` to add the SHA256 checksums as available
in the ``mesa-X.Y.Z.announce`` template. Commit this change.
Don't forget to push the commits to both the ``staging/X.Y`` branch and
the ``X.Y`` branch:
.. code-block:: console
git push origin HEAD:staging/X.Y
git push origin HEAD:X.Y
Back on mesa main, add the new release notes into the tree
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Something like the following steps will do the trick:
.. code-block:: console
git cherry-pick -x X.Y~1
git cherry-pick -x X.Y
Then run the
.. code-block:: console
./bin/post_version.py X.Y.Z
, where X.Y.Z is the version you just made. This will update
docs/relnotes.rst and docs/release-calendar.csv. It will then generate
a Git commit automatically. Check that everything looks correct and
push:
.. code-block:: console
git push origin main X.Y
Announce the release
--------------------
Use the generated template during the releasing process.
Again, pay attention to add a note to warn about a final release in a
series, if that is the case.
Update GitLab issues
--------------------
Parse through the bug reports as listed in the docs/relnotes/X.Y.Z.rst
document. If there's outstanding action, close the bug referencing the
commit ID which addresses the bug and mention the Mesa version that has
the fix.
.. note: the above is not applicable to all the reports, so use common sense.