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# Copyright (c) 2020 The DAML Authors. All rights reserved.
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
load("@build_bazel_rules_nodejs//:index.bzl", "nodejs_binary")
load("@os_info//:os_info.bzl", "is_linux", "is_windows")
load("//rules_daml:daml.bzl", "daml_compile", "daml_test")
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar")
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
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load("@build_environment//:configuration.bzl", "mvn_version", "sdk_version")
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nodejs_binary(
name = "grunt",
data = [
"@npm//grunt-cli",
"@npm//matchdep",
],
entry_point = "@npm//:node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt",
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)
genrule(
name = "theme",
srcs = glob(
["theme/**"],
exclude = [
"theme/bower_components/**",
"theme/node_modules/**",
"theme/da_theme/**",
],
) + [
# we need to list all the transitive dependencies here because of https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/issues/1553
"@npm//acorn",
"@npm//acorn-dynamic-import",
"@npm//acorn-node",
"@npm//acorn-walk",
"@npm//ansi-regex",
"@npm//ansi-styles",
"@npm//anymatch",
"@npm//assert",
"@npm//async",
"@npm//async-each",
"@npm//balanced-match",
"@npm//basic-auth",
"@npm//batch",
"@npm//binary-extensions",
"@npm//body",
"@npm//brace-expansion",
"@npm//browserify",
"@npm//browserify-cache-api",
"@npm//browserify-incremental",
"@npm//browserify-zlib",
"@npm//browser-pack",
"@npm//browser-resolve",
"@npm//buffer",
"@npm//buffer-from",
"@npm//cached-path-relative",
"@npm//chalk",
"@npm//chokidar",
"@npm//coffeescript",
"@npm//color-convert",
"@npm//colors",
"@npm//combine-source-map",
"@npm//concat-map",
"@npm//concat-stream",
"@npm//connect",
"@npm//connect-livereload",
"@npm//console-browserify",
"@npm//constants-browserify",
"@npm//continuable-cache",
"@npm//convert-source-map",
"@npm//core-util-is",
"@npm//cross-spawn",
"@npm//crypto-browserify",
"@npm//dargs",
"@npm//dash-ast",
"@npm//dateformat",
"@npm//defined",
"@npm//depd",
"@npm//deps-sort",
"@npm//destroy",
"@npm//detective",
"@npm//domain-browser",
"@npm//duplexer",
"@npm//duplexer2",
"@npm//ee-first",
"@npm//encodeurl",
"@npm//error",
"@npm//escape-html",
"@npm//escape-string-regexp",
"@npm//etag",
"@npm//eventemitter2",
"@npm//events",
"@npm//exit",
"@npm//faye-websocket",
"@npm//figures",
"@npm//file-sync-cmp",
"@npm//findup-sync",
"@npm//fresh",
"@npm//fs.realpath",
"@npm//function-bind",
"@npm//gaze",
"@npm//get-assigned-identifiers",
"@npm//getobject",
"@npm//glob",
"@npm//glob-parent",
"@npm//globule",
"@npm//graceful-fs",
"@npm//grunt",
"@npm//grunt-banner",
"@npm//grunt-browserify",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-clean",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-connect",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-copy",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-sass",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-uglify",
"@npm//grunt-contrib-watch",
"@npm//grunt-exec",
"@npm//grunt-legacy-log",
"@npm//grunt-legacy-log-utils",
"@npm//grunt-legacy-util",
"@npm//grunt-open",
"@npm//gzip-size",
"@npm//has",
"@npm//has-ansi",
"@npm//has-flag",
"@npm//hooker",
"@npm//htmlescape",
"@npm//http-parser-js",
"@npm//https-browserify",
"@npm//iconv-lite",
"@npm//inflight",
"@npm//inherits",
"@npm//inline-source-map",
"@npm//insert-module-globals",
"@npm//is-binary-path",
"@npm//is-number-like",
"@npm//is-wsl",
"@npm//jsonparse",
"@npm//json-stable-stringify",
"@npm//JSONStream",
"@npm//js-yaml",
"@npm//labeled-stream-splicer",
"@npm//lodash",
"@npm//lodash.isfinite",
"@npm//lodash.memoize",
"@npm//lru-cache",
"@npm//matchdep",
"@npm//maxmin",
"@npm//mime-db",
"@npm//mime-types",
"@npm//minimatch",
"@npm//mkdirp",
"@npm//module-deps",
"@npm//morgan",
"@npm//node-http2",
"@npm//nopt",
"@npm//normalize-path",
"@npm//number-is-nan",
"@npm//object-assign",
"@npm//once",
"@npm//on-finished",
"@npm//on-headers",
"@npm//opn",
"@npm//os-browserify",
"@npm//parents",
"@npm//parseurl",
"@npm//path-browserify",
"@npm//path-dirname",
"@npm//path-is-absolute",
"@npm//path-platform",
"@npm//portscanner",
"@npm//pretty-bytes",
"@npm//process",
"@npm//process-nextick-args",
"@npm//querystring-es3",
"@npm//readable-stream",
"@npm//readdirp",
"@npm//read-only-stream",
"@npm//remove-trailing-separator",
"@npm//rimraf",
"@npm//safe-buffer",
"@npm//safe-json-parse",
"@npm//safer-buffer",
"@npm//serve-index",
"@npm//shasum",
"@npm//sprintf-js",
"@npm//statuses",
"@npm//stream-browserify",
"@npm//stream-combiner2",
"@npm//stream-http",
"@npm//stream-splicer",
"@npm//string_decoder",
"@npm//string-template",
"@npm//strip-ansi",
"@npm//supports-color",
"@npm//syntax-error",
"@npm//through",
"@npm//through2",
"@npm//timers-browserify",
"@npm//tiny-lr",
"@npm//tty-browserify",
"@npm//uglify-js",
"@npm//umd",
"@npm//undeclared-identifiers",
"@npm//underscore.string",
"@npm//unpipe",
"@npm//upath",
"@npm//uri-path",
"@npm//url",
"@npm//util",
"@npm//util-deprecate",
"@npm//utils-merge",
"@npm//vm-browserify",
"@npm//watchify",
"@npm//websocket-driver",
"@npm//websocket-extensions",
"@npm//wrappy",
"@npm//xtend",
],
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outs = ["da_theme.tar.gz"],
cmd = """
cp -rL docs/theme theme
cd theme
# Make the node_modules available
ln -s ../external/npm/node_modules .
# Run sass and grunt
../$(location @sass_nix//:bin/sass) \
-I bower_components_static/bourbon/dist \
-I bower_components_static/neat/app/assets/stylesheets \
-I bower_components_static/font-awesome/scss \
-I bower_components_static/wyrm/sass \
--style compressed \
--sourcemap=none \
--update \
sass:da_theme/static/css
../$(location :grunt) build
tar \
--owner=1000 \
--group=1000 \
--mtime=1337 \
--no-acls \
--no-xattrs \
--no-selinux \
--sort=name \
-czf ../$(location da_theme.tar.gz) \
da_theme
""",
tools = [
":grunt",
"@sass_nix//:bin/sass",
],
) if not is_windows else None
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genrule(
name = "sources",
srcs = glob(["source/**"]) + [
"//compiler/damlc:daml-base-rst-docs",
"//triggers/daml:daml-trigger-rst-docs",
"//daml-script/daml:daml-script-rst-docs",
"//ledger-api/grpc-definitions:docs",
"//:LICENSE",
"//:NOTICES",
],
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outs = ["source.tar.gz"],
cmd = """
cp -rL docs/source source
# Copy in Stdlib
cp -rL $(location //compiler/damlc:daml-base-rst-docs) source/daml/reference/base.rst
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# Copy in daml-trigger documentation
cp -rL $(location //triggers/daml:daml-trigger-rst-docs) source/triggers/trigger-docs.rst
# Copy in daml-script documentation
cp -rL $(location //daml-script/daml:daml-script-rst-docs) source/daml-script/daml-script-docs.rst
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# Copy in Protobufs
cp -rL $(location //ledger-api/grpc-definitions:docs) source/app-dev/grpc/proto-docs.rst
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# Copy in License and Notices
cp -L $(location //:LICENSE) source/LICENSE
cp -L $(location //:NOTICES) source/NOTICES
tar -zcf $(location source.tar.gz) source
""",
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)
genrule(
name = "pdf-docs",
srcs = glob([
"configs/pdf/**",
"configs/static/pygments_daml_lexer.py",
]) + [
":sources",
],
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outs = ["DigitalAssetSDK.pdf"],
cmd = ("""
export LOCALE_ARCHIVE="$$PWD/$(location @glibc_locales//:locale-archive)"
""" if is_linux else "") + """
set -euo pipefail
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# Set up tools
export PATH="$$( cd "$$(dirname "$(location @imagemagick_nix//:bin/convert)")" ; pwd -P )":$$PATH
# Copy files into the right structure and remove symlinks
tar -zxf $(location sources) -C .
cp -L docs/configs/pdf/index.rst source/
cp -L docs/configs/pdf/conf.py source/
cp -L docs/configs/pdf/logo.png source/
cp -rL docs/configs/static ./
# Build with Sphinx
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
sed -i "s,__VERSION__,"{sdk}"," source/conf.py
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export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$(location @sphinx_nix//:bin/sphinx-build) -b latex source out
# Copy in fonts and build with lualatex
cp -L docs/configs/pdf/fonts/* out/
cd out
# run twice to generate all references properly (this is a latex thing...)
../$(location @texlive_nix//:bin/lualatex) -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode --shell-escape *.tex
../$(location @texlive_nix//:bin/lualatex) -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode --shell-escape *.tex
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
# Move output to target
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
mv DigitalAssetSDK.pdf ../$(location DigitalAssetSDK.pdf)""".format(sdk = sdk_version),
tags = ["pdfdocs"],
tools =
[
"@texlive_nix//:bin/lualatex",
"@sphinx_nix//:bin/sphinx-build",
"@imagemagick_nix//:bin/convert",
] + (["@glibc_locales//:locale-archive"] if is_linux else []),
) if not is_windows else None
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genrule(
name = "docs-no-pdf",
srcs = glob([
"configs/html/**",
"configs/static/pygments_daml_lexer.py",
]) + [
":sources",
":theme",
"//compiler/damlc:daml-base-rst-docs",
"//compiler/damlc:daml-base-hoogle-docs",
"//language-support/java:javadoc",
],
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outs = ["html-only.tar.gz"],
cmd = ("""
export LOCALE_ARCHIVE="$$PWD/$(location @glibc_locales//:locale-archive)"
""" if is_linux else "") + """
# Copy files into the right structure and remove symlinks
mkdir build
cp -rL docs build
tar -zxf $(location sources) -C build/docs
# Copy in theme
mkdir -p build/docs/theme
tar -zxf $(location :theme) -C build/docs/theme
# Build with Sphinx
cd build
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
sed -i "s,__VERSION__,"{sdk}"," docs/configs/html/conf.py
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export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
WARNINGS=$$(../$(location @sphinx_nix//:bin/sphinx-build) -c docs/configs/html docs/source html 2>&1 | \
grep -Ei "warning:" || true)
if [ "$$WARNINGS" != "" ]; then
echo "$$WARNINGS"
exit 1
fi
# Copy Javadoc using unzip to avoid having to know the path to the 'jar' binary. Note flag to overwrite
unzip -o ../$(locations //language-support/java:javadoc) -d html/app-dev/bindings-java/javadocs
# Remove JAR metadata
rm -r html/app-dev/bindings-java/javadocs/META-INF
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# Copy in hoogle DB
mkdir -p html/hoogle_db
cp -rL ../$(location //compiler/damlc:daml-base-hoogle-docs) html/hoogle_db/base.txt
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tar -zcf ../$(location html-only.tar.gz) html
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
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""".format(sdk = sdk_version),
tools =
["@sphinx_nix//:bin/sphinx-build"] +
(["@glibc_locales//:locale-archive"] if is_linux else []),
) if not is_windows else None
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genrule(
name = "redirects",
srcs = [
"redirects.map",
"redirect_template.html",
],
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outs = ["redirects.tar.gz"],
cmd = """
mkdir redirects
while read l; do
from=$$(awk -F' -> ' '{print $$1}' <<<$$l)
to=$$(awk -F' -> ' '{print $$2}' <<<"$$l")
if [ $$to ]
then
mkdir -p redirects/$$(dirname $$from)
cp -L docs/redirect_template.html redirects/$$from
sed -i -e "s,__URL__,$${to}," redirects/$$from
fi
done <docs/redirects.map
tar -zcf $(location redirects.tar.gz) redirects
""",
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)
genrule(
name = "docs",
srcs = [
":docs-no-pdf",
":pdf-docs",
":redirects",
"error.html",
],
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outs = ["html.tar.gz"],
cmd = """
VERSION_DATE=$$(cat bazel-out/stable-status.txt | grep STABLE_VERSION_DATE | head -1 | cut -f 2 -d' ')
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tar -zxf $(location :redirects)
tar -zxf $(location :docs-no-pdf)
cp -rn redirects/* html
cp -L docs/error.html html
cd html
find . -name '*.html' | sort | sed -e 's,^\\./,https://docs.daml.com/,' > sitemap
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
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SMHEAD=\"{head}\"
SMITEM=\"{item}\"
SMFOOT=\"{foot}\"
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echo $$SMHEAD > sitemap.xml
while read item; do
echo $$SMITEM | sed -e "s,%DATE%,$${{VERSION_DATE}}," | sed -e "s,%LOC%,$${{item}}," >> sitemap.xml
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done < sitemap
rm sitemap
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echo $$SMFOOT >> sitemap.xml
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
echo {{ \\"{version}\\" : \\"{version}\\" }} > versions.json
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
cd ..
cp -L $(location :pdf-docs) html/_downloads
# Remove Sphinx build products
rm -rf .buildinfo .doctrees objects.inv
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
tar -zcf $(location html.tar.gz) html
""".format(
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
head = """<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><urlset xmlns='http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd'>""",
item = """<url><loc>%LOC%</loc><lastmod>%DATE%</lastmod><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>0.8</priority></url>""",
foot = """</urlset>""",
version = sdk_version,
),
stamp = 1,
tags = ["pdfdocs"],
) if not is_windows else None
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
filegroup(
name = "daml-assistant-iou-setup",
srcs = glob(
["source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/*"],
# excluding quickstart-java stuff and da-skeleton.yaml (which should be removed once DA Assistant is gone)
exclude = [
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/src",
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/pom.xml",
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/da-skeleton.yaml",
],
exclude_directories = 0,
),
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
genrule(
name = "quickstart-java",
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
2020-02-25 19:01:23 +03:00
srcs = glob(["source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/**"]),
2019-04-04 11:33:38 +03:00
outs = ["quickstart-java.tar.gz"],
cmd = """
mkdir -p quickstart-java
cp -rL docs/source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/* quickstart-java/
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
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sed -i "s/__VERSION__/{mvn}/" quickstart-java/pom.xml
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tar zcf $@ quickstart-java
introduce new release process (#4513) Context ======= After multiple discussions about our current release schedule and process, we've come to the conclusion that we need to be able to make a distinction between technical snapshots and marketing releases. In other words, we need to be able to create a bundle for early adopters to test without making it an officially-supported version, and without necessarily implying everyone should go through the trouble of upgrading. The underlying goal is to have less frequent but more stable "official" releases. This PR is a proposal for a new release process designed under the following constraints: - Reuse as much as possible of the existing infrastructure, to minimize effort but also chances of disruptions. - Have the ability to create "snapshot"/"nightly"/... releases that are not meant for general public consumption, but can still be used by savvy users without jumping through too many extra hoops (ideally just swapping in a slightly-weirder version string). - Have the ability to promote an existing snapshot release to "official" release status, with as few changes as possible in-between, so we can be confident that the official release is what we tested as a prerelease. - Have as much of the release pipeline shared between the two types of releases, to avoid discovering non-transient problems while trying to promote a snapshot to an official release. - Triggerring a release should still be done through a PR, so we can keep the same approval process for SOC2 auditability. The gist of this proposal is to replace the current `VERSION` file with a `LATEST` file, which would have the following format: ``` ef5d32b7438e481de0235c5538aedab419682388 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` This file would be maintained with a script to reduce manual labor in producing the version string. Other than that, the process will be largely the same, with releases triggered by changes to this `LATEST` and the release notes files. Version numbers =============== Because one of the goals is to reduce the velocity of our published version numbers, we need a different version scheme for our snapshot releases. Fortunately, most version schemes have some support for that; unfortunately, the SDK sits at the intersection of three different version schemes that have made incompatible choices. Without going into too much detail: - Semantic versioning (which we chose as the version format for the SDK version number) allows for "prerelease" version numbers as well as "metadata"; an example of a complete version string would be `1.2.3-nightly.201+server12.43`. The "main" part of the version string always has to have 3 numbers separated by dots; the "prerelease" (after the `-` but before the `+`) and the "metadata" (after the `+`) parts are optional and, if present, must consist of one or more segments separated by dots, where a segment can be either a number or an alphanumeric string. In terms of ordering, metadata is irrelevant and any version with a prerelease string is before the corresponding "main" version string alone. Amongst prereleases, segments are compared in order with purely numeric ones compared as numbers and mixed ones compared lexicographically. So 1.2.3 is more recent than 1.2.3-1, which is itself less recent than 1.2.3-2. - Maven version strings are any number of segments separated by a `.`, a `-`, or a transition between a number and a letter. Version strings are compared element-wise, with numeric segments being compared as numbers. Alphabetic segments are treated specially if they happen to be one of a handful of magic words (such as "alpha", "beta" or "snapshot" for example) which count as "qualifiers"; a version string with a qualifier is "before" its prefix (`1.2.3` is before `1.2.3-alpha.3`, which is the same as `1.2.3-alpha3` or `1.2.3-alpha-3`), and there is a special ordering amongst qualifiers. Other alphabetic segments are compared alphabetically and count as being "after" their prefix (`1.2.3-really-final-this-time` counts as being released after `1.2.3`). - GHC package numbers are comprised of any number of numeric segments separated by `.`, plus an optional (though deprecated) alphanumeric "version tag" separated by a `-`. I could not find any official documentation on ordering for the version tag; numeric segments are compared as numbers. - npm uses semantic versioning so that is covered already. After much more investigation than I'd care to admit, I have come up with the following compromise as the least-bad solution. First, obviously, the version string for stable/marketing versions is going to be "standard" semver, i.e. major.minor.patch, all numbers, which works, and sorts as expected, for all three schemes. For snapshot releases, we shall use the following (semver) format: ``` 0.13.53-alpha.20200214.3025.ef5d32b7 ``` where the components are, respectively: - `0.13.53`: the expected version string of the next "stable" release. - `alpha`: a marker that hopefully scares people enough. - `20200214`: the date of the release commit, which _MUST_ be on master. - `3025`: the number of commits in master up to the release commit (included). Because we have a linear, append-only master branch, this uniquely identifies the commit. - `ef5d32b7ù : the first 8 characters of the release commit sha. This is not strictly speaking necessary, but makes it a lot more convenient to identify the commit. The main downsides of this format are: 1. It is not a valid format for GHC packages. We do not publish GHC packages from the SDK (so far we have instead opted to release our Haskell code as separate packages entirely), so this should not be an issue. However, our SDK version currently leaks to `ghc-pkg` as the version string for the stdlib (and prim) packages. This PR addresses that by tweaking the compiler to remove the offending bits, so `ghc-pkg` would see the above version number as `0.13.53.20200214.3025`, which should be enough to uniquely identify it. Note that, as far as I could find out, this number would never be exposed to users. 2. It is rather long, which I think is good from a human perspective as it makes it more scary. However, I have been told that this may be long enough to cause issues on Windows by pushing us past the max path size limitation of that "OS". I suggest we try it and see what happens. The upsides are: - It clearly indicates it is an unstable release (`alpha`). - It clearly indicates how old it is, by including the date. - To humans, it is immediately obvious which version is "later" even if they have the same date, allowing us to release same-day patches if needed. (Note: that is, commits that were made on the same day; the release date itself is irrelevant here.) - It contains the git sha so the commit built for that release is immediately obvious. - It sorts correctly under all schemes (modulo the modification for GHC). Alternatives I considered: - Pander to GHC: 0.13.53-alpha-20200214-3025-ef5d32b7. This format would be accepted by all schemes, but will not sort as expected under semantic versioning (though Maven will be fine). I have no idea how it will sort under GHC. - Not having any non-numeric component, e.g. `0.13.53.20200214.3025`. This is not valid semantic versioning and is therefore rejected by npm. - Not having detailed info: just go with `0.13.53-snapshot`. This is what is generally done in the Java world, but we then lose track of what version is actually in use and I'm concerned about bug reports. This would also not let us publish to the main Maven repo (at least not more than once), as artifacts there are supposed to be immutable. - No having a qualifier: `0.13.53-3025` would be acceptable to all three version formats. However, it would not clearly indicate to humans that it is not meant as a stable version, and would sort differently under semantic versioning (which counts it as a prerelease, i.e. before `0.13.53`) than under maven (which counts it as a patch, so after `0.13.53`). - Just counting releases: `0.13.53-alpha.1`, where we just count the number of prereleases in-between `0.13.52` and the next. This is currently the fallback plan if Windows path length causes issues. It would be less convenient to map releases to commits, but it could still be done via querying the history of the `LATEST` file. Release notes ============= > Note: We have decided not to have release notes for snapshot releases. Release notes are a bit tricky. Because we want the ability to make snapshot releases, then later on promote them to stable releases, it follows that we want to build commits from the past. However, if we decide post-hoc that a commit is actually a good candidate for a release, there is no way that commit can have the appropriate release notes: it cannot know what version number it's getting, and, moreover, we now track changes in commit messages. And I do not think anyone wants to go back to the release notes file being a merge bottleneck. But release notes need to be published to the releases blog upon releasing a stable version, and the docs website needs to be updated and include them. The only sensible solution here is to pick up the release notes as of the commit that triggers the release. As the docs cron runs asynchronously, this means walking down the git history to find the relevant commit. > Note: We could probably do away with the asynchronicity at this point. > It was originally included to cover for the possibility of a release > failing. If we are releasing commits from the past after they have been > tested, this should not be an issue anymore. If the docs generation were > part of the synchronous release step, it would have direct access to the > correct release notes without having to walk down the git history. > > However, I think it is more prudent to keep this change as a future step, > after we're confident the new release scheme does indeed produce much more > reliable "stable" releases. New release process =================== Just like releases are currently controlled mostly by detecting changes to the `VERSION` file, the new process will be controlled by detecting changes to the `LATEST` file. The format of that file will include both the version string and the corresponding SHA. Upon detecting a change to the `LATEST` file, CI will run the entire release process, just like it does now with the VERSION file. The main differences are: 1. Before running the release step, CI will checkout the commit specified in the LATEST file. This requires separating the release step from the build step, which in my opinion is cleaner anyway. 2. The `//:VERSION` Bazel target is replaced by a repository rule that gets the version to build from an environment variable, with a default of `0.0.0` to remain consistent with the current `daml-head` behaviour. Some of the manual steps will need to be skipped for a snapshot release. See amended `release/RELEASE.md` in this commit for details. The main caveat of this approach is that the official release will be a different binary from the corresponding snapshot. It will have been built from the same source, but with a different version string. This is somewhat mitigated by Bazel caching, meaning any build step that does not depend on the version string should use the cache and produce identical results. I do not think this can be avoided when our artifact includes its own version number. I must note, though, that while going through the changes required after removing the `VERSION` file, I have been quite surprised at the sheer number of things that actually depend on the SDK version number. I believe we should look into reducing that over time. CHANGELOG_BEGIN CHANGELOG_END
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""".format(mvn = mvn_version),
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visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
load("//language-support/java/codegen:codegen.bzl", "dar_to_java")
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daml_compile(
name = "quickstart-model",
srcs = glob(["source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/**/*.daml"]),
main_src = "source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/daml/Main.daml",
HTTP JSON API first version (#1994) * Cleanup * WIP * first integration test + fixture * minor cleanup * Implementing ContractService.lookup * Reverting back to endpoints.all (all2 did not work) * Cleanup * replace ApiValue ADT with aliases to daml-lf/transaction Value ADT * porting rest of navigator to LF Value ADT * Command Service WIP * CommandService WIP * porting more of navigator to LF Value ADT * last error, not first * rename ApiValueImplicits file * special conversion features for ImmArray and FrontStack - just .to[ImmArray] or .to[FrontStack] any random collection * finish porting most of navigator main code * use numeric indices for record field name fallback when pretty-printing * tuples are not serializable * use numeric indices for label fallback in JSON verbose encoding * make traverseEitherStrictly more likely to preserve the seq's class * to shortcut for ImmArraySeq .to[ImmArraySeq] * compiling, passing navigator backend tests * test traverseEitherStrictly more, er, strictly * pass scalacopts through to scaladoc * deal with unused warning * remove unneeded function * simpler error reporting, more private functions in ApiCodecCompressed * move slowApply to FrontStack, test it so it actually works * remove unneeded toStrings; better error from impossible ValueTuple case * scalafmt FrontStackSpec * support alternative, label-free record JSON encoding * Adding domain.CreateCommand + corresponding json formats and dummy json format for lav1.value.Record * CommandService.create should be done... need to test it * TODO added * Cleanup * move ApiCodecCompressed, ApiValueImplicits, and some aliases to new lf-value-json package * Using tagged TemplateId type instead of Identifier + exercise command WIP * adapt navigator to moved pieces * start defining scalacheck extension to ApiCodecCompressedSpec * CommandService.exercise + introducing CommandMeta * Adding command endpoints, can't test them yet, need lf value json formats * fuse some list operations - suggested by @stefanobaghino-da; thanks * blue error message * Minor fixes after merging librify-navigator-json-compressed, #2136 * experiment with an inductive case in TypedValueGenerators * finish a List case for TypedValueGenerators; it's revealing * Introducing API value to LF value converter, CommandsValidator takes IdentifierResolverLike instead of IdentifierResolver * cleanup * remove accidentally readded duplicate aliases * start tying knots in TypedValueGenerators * verbatim copy ApiCodecCompressedSpec to lf-value-json * shift some tests from navigator to lf-value-json * test Optional and Map for ApiCodecCompressed * heavier random testing of ApiCodecCompressed * remove unused dependencies from lf-value-json * adding value json writer * cleanup * Revert "cleanup" This reverts commit 2e4d153f * fixing the build * cleanup * cleaning up imports * JsValue to API value is done, needs a test * cleanup * use scalac -Ypartial-unification in http-json * simplify some Traverse instances * factor CreateCommand and ExerciseCommand traverse instances * Command create integration test WIP * Command create integration test WIP, got rid of the JsonReader and JsonWriter for the values, converting values explicitly * Extracting DomainJsonDecoder and DomainJsonEncoder * LfV refactoring * Create command serialize/deserialize test works * cleanup * resolving conflicts * More json encode/decode tests * logging * command/create passes integration test now * Adding readme * grammar * TODO added * GetActiveContractsResponse encoding * ideintifier conversion renaming * PackageService resolveTemplateId returns domain.TemplateId now * Resolving LF Identifier instead of Template ID, this should also work for Exercise command decoding * cleaning up a bit * daml-lf: show type in TypedValueGenerators-driven errors * exercise command json encoding/decoding works * command/exercise IOU_Transfer integration test passes now * avoid filter for Gens; makes many contract ID gens not fail * test ApiCodecCompressed against 100 random types, 20 random values each * Updating README instructions * improving error handling, failed futures, get logged and reported to the user now as 500 * [ROUTING DSL] Removing routing DSL, it did not work * getting rid of HttpEntity.Strict match + cleanup * fixing the merge conflict * updating README * use Show.shows instead of new Show * List(_) isn't checked, but Seq(_) is slightly safer * improving test assertions * Adding /contracts/lookup implementation * http-json: use ImmArraySeq instead of List; use toRightDisjuction * http-json: .toList.toSet is shorter than fold * http-json: replace .leftMap.map with .bimap * http-json: use subst instead of reimplementing JsonFormat * http-json: remove unused ExceptionHandler * http-json: safer == comparison * Adding two test cases for expected errors * Adding BazelRunfiles.rlocation magic that supposed to handle windows path for bazel dependencies * http-json: import, not extend
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visibility = [
"//language-support/scala/examples:__subpackages__",
"//ledger-service:__subpackages__",
],
)
dar_to_java(
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name = "quickstart-model",
src = "quickstart-model.dar",
package_prefix = "com.digitalasset.quickstart.model",
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)
java_binary(
name = "quickstart-java-lib",
srcs = glob(["source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/src/main/java/**/*.java"]) + [":quickstart-model-srcjar"],
main_class = "com.digitalasset.quickstart.iou.IouMain",
deps = [
"//daml-lf/archive:daml_lf_dev_archive_java_proto",
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"//language-support/java/bindings:bindings-java",
"//language-support/java/bindings-rxjava",
"@maven//:ch_qos_logback_logback_classic",
"@maven//:com_google_code_gson_gson",
"@maven//:com_google_guava_guava",
"@maven//:com_google_protobuf_protobuf_java",
"@maven//:com_sparkjava_spark_core",
"@maven//:io_reactivex_rxjava2_rxjava",
"@maven//:org_slf4j_slf4j_api",
],
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)
daml_test(
name = "ledger-api-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/app-dev/code-snippets/**/*.daml"]),
)
daml_test(
name = "bindings-java-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/app-dev/bindings-java/code-snippets/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "patterns-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/daml/patterns/daml/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "daml-studio-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/daml/daml-studio/daml/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "daml-ref-daml-test",
timeout = "long",
srcs = glob(["source/daml/code-snippets/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "introduction-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/getting-started/introduction/code/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "quickstart-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/daml/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "ledger-model-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/concepts/ledger-model/daml/**/*.daml"]),
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)
daml_test(
name = "java-bindings-docs-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/app-dev/bindings-java/daml/**/*.daml"]),
)
daml_test(
name = "daml-intro-daml-test",
srcs = glob(["source/daml/intro/daml/**/*.daml"]),
)
filegroup(
name = "daml-intro-1",
srcs = glob(
["source/daml/intro/daml/1_Token/**/*"],
# excluding quickstart-java stuff and da-skeleton.yaml (which should be removed once DA Assistant is gone)
exclude = [
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/src",
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/pom.xml",
"source/getting-started/quickstart/template-root/da-skeleton.yaml",
],
exclude_directories = 0,
),
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
pkg_tar(
name = "daml-intro-templates",
srcs = glob(["source/daml/intro/daml/**"]),
strip_prefix = "source/daml/intro/daml",
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
pkg_tar(
name = "copy-trigger-template",
srcs = glob(
["source/triggers/template-root/**"],
exclude = ["**/*~"],
),
strip_prefix = "source/triggers/template-root",
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
pkg_tar(
name = "script-example-template",
srcs = glob(
["source/daml-script/template-root/**"],
exclude = ["**/*~"],
),
strip_prefix = "source/daml-script/template-root",
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
exports_files([
"source/triggers/template-root/src/CopyTrigger.daml",
"source/daml-script/template-root/src/ScriptExample.daml",
])