Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D40AB10389 for ; Fri, 3 May 2013 18:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 56527 invoked by uid 500); 3 May 2013 18:26:16 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 56434 invoked by uid 500); 3 May 2013 18:26:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 56425 invoked by uid 99); 3 May 2013 18:26:16 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 May 2013 18:26:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:26:16 +0000 (UTC) From: "Dave Cottlehuber (JIRA)" To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1787) Automate release process documentation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1787?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13648648#comment-13648648 ] Dave Cottlehuber commented on COUCHDB-1787: ------------------------------------------- http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 -> in 30 minutes. > Automate release process documentation > -------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1787 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1787 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Build System, Documentation > Reporter: Dave Cottlehuber > Labels: gsoc2013, sphinx > > The release process today contains a large number of manual transformation steps. > Fixing this will make the release process significantly easier for release managers, as well as less error-prone. > Ideally the output formats (NEWS, CHANGES in source tree, and HTML snippets for http://couchdb.org/ website and http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb ) can be auto-generated from either the .rst files in share/doc/src using sphinx's .versionaddded/changed tags, or potentially from commit messages if this is appropriate. > CouchDB documentation is generated today from restructured text using python code, and rolled into the release documentation during `make distcheck`. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira