ReleaseMe CI States, Help, Git

Since we recently wired up the KDE release tool releaseme with KDE neon’s git-build technology I had the opportunity to spend some quality time on the code and managed to sneak in a load of both quality and speed improvements as well as some new features.

CI States

For quite a while I’ve been considering to pull CI data into releaseme. It makes all sorts of sense. You want to release high-quality software, so whenever possible you’d want to make sure CI is green. But to do that you’d have to open a browser, navigate to build.kde.org, and find the right jobs. Yet, there is absolutely no reason why a human would have to do that. So now releaseme does it for you before getting started on assembling the sources.

Help

Unfortunately, the release process itself is often a bit convoluted and it is not clear what to do once you have a tarball. To help people with publishing their new tarball releaseme will now print a handy help suggesting common steps to take once you have a tarball. It also points to the relevant location for publishing tarballs on KDE infrastructure and even gives you a handy link with a sysadmin ticket template to quickly file a publishing request.

Git Builds

Aleix Pol worked on adding a cool new feature to the extra-cmake-modules frameworks, enabling everyone who builds from git to fetch translations as well. This is currently slated to release with KDE Frameworks 5.34. Once landed you’ll be able to run make fetch-translations with just about any git clone of KDE software and grab the latest translations into your build directory.