Guide for doing a Clawpack release¶
This is the procedure used to do a new official release of Clawpack.
Preparation¶
Make sure all your subrepositories are up to date and clean:
cd $CLAW
git co master
git pull
source pull_all.sh # to make sure all subrepos are up to date
python $CLAW/clawutil/src/python/claw_git_status.py
Check the output of this last commands in the files claw_git_status.txt and claw_git_diffs.txt to make sure you don’t have any uncommitted changes.
Run all the examples as described in CLAW/doc/gallery/README.md as required for building the galleries, and check all the resulting plots to make sure everything looks correct.
New as of v5.6.0: change the version number in clawpack/clawpack/__init__.py Initially set to e.g. v5.4.1rc-alpha, then to final release number.
Release candidates¶
Make sure all repositories are checked out to the master branch and are up to date with the main Clawpack repositories and clean, as described in the preparation step above.
After following the preparation instructions above, do the following:
cd $CLAW
git checkout -b v5.4.1rc-alpha # change to appropriate name for this rc
git add -u .
git commit -m "v5.4.1rc-alpha release candidate"
git push <your fork>
Then do a PR on https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack.
Create a tar file and a Github release¶
We generally do this step for a release candidate first, and then do the same for the final release. For release candidates, modify the version number to include 5.4.1rc-alpha, for example.
NOTE: Once one or more release candidates have been tested, the final such PR should contain a change of the version number in the file $CLAW/setup.py and in $CLAW/clawpack/__init__.py to the full version, e.g. 5.4.1.
Once the PR has been merged:
cd $CLAW
git co master
git pull
source pull_all.sh # to make sure all subrepos are up to date
Create tar file (first install https://github.com/Kentzo/git-archive-all):
cd $CLAW
git-archive-all --prefix clawpack-v5.x.x/ clawpack-v5.x.x.tar
gzip clawpack-v5.x.x.tar
(Note: best to use v5.x.x rather than just 5.x.x to be consistent with the directory name created if following pip install instructions.)
Draft a new release on the webpage https://github.com/clawpack/clawpack/releases. Indicate that it is pre-release if desired.
As a comment, add text such as:
Download the clawpack-v5.x.x.tar.gz file below, not the other tar
file of zip file. Those only include the top-level Clawpack directories and
not all the submodules.
Then attach the tar file clawpack-v5.x.x.tar.gz to be included in the release by using the link “Attach binaries…” before finalizing the release. (You can go back and “Edit release” if necessary.)
Final release¶
After the release has been finalized, tag all repositories. In the commands below, it is assumed the remote upstream points to the main Github repos (not your fork) and that you have push permission. Change 5.x.x to the appropriate version number in these commands:
cd $CLAW
git checkout master; git pull # make sure up to date!
git tag v5.x.x
git push upstream v5.x.x
cd ../pyclaw
git checkout master; git pull # make sure up to date!
git tag v5.x.x
git push upstream v5.x.x
Do the same in all other repos (classic, amrclaw, geoclaw, clawutil, visclaw, riemann).
Note these tags are used in the documentation for pages like Changes to master since v5.6.1 which generate diffs between the latest version and the current master branch of each repository.
Pypi¶
To release on the pypi server (for installation via pip) we have to do a bit of trickery. We can’t just follow the directions at https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/ because we have a very non-Pythonic directory structure; in particular, the subdirectories clawpack/x/ do not have an __init__.py.
Here’s what to do:
cd $CLAW
git-archive-all --prefix clawpack-x.x.x/ clawpack-x.x.x.tar
Then unpack the resulting tarball in another location. Next:
cd $CLAW
python setup.py sdist
cd dist
Now extract that resulting tarball. Then copy the file PKG-INFO from this second tarball to the first one. Finally, repack the first tarball and put it in $CLAW/dist:
tar -cvf clawpack-x.x.x.tar clawpack-x.x.x
gzip clawpack-x.x.x.tar
mv clawpack-x.x.x.tar $CLAW/dist
Upload to the testpypi server for testing (you will need to have created an account there):
cd ..
twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
Test it:
pip3 uninstall clawpack
pip3 install —no-cache—dir —index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ clawpack
Once that works, do the real upload to pypi:
twine upload dist/*
Zenodo¶
Go to the the Zenodo page and create a new upload for the latest tar file, following the framework of https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.820730, for example. This will issue a new DOI, which should be added to the page $CLAW/doc/doc/releases.rst.
Note that the Github repository is not linked to Zenodo for automatic uploading on release since that would only archive a zip file of the main clawpack repository. Instead we want to archive the tar file containing all subrepositories too.
Updating the documentation¶
See Guide for updating this documentation for general instructions on building the documentation and galleries using Sphinx, and for how to push changes to Github so they show up on the web.
When making changes for a new release, the following pages in the directory $CLAW/doc/doc need to be updated:
A page like v5.4.0 release notes needs to be created. Copy changes_to_master.rst to release_5_x_x.rst for a new release 5.x.x and then change master to 5_x_x in each link to Github, so they have the form v5.4.0…v5.4.1, for example when going from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1.
Add to this page a brief summary of the major changes from the last release, using the diffs that show up in changes_to_master.rst as a guide.
Add and commit this new page, and also add a link to it to the file changes.rst (to show up in changes).
Modify the page changes_to_master.rst by replacing the previous version number (e.g. 5.y.y) by the version number of the new release (e.g. 5.x.x) so that links are comparing e.g. v5.x.x…master
Update releases.rst to include a link to the new version on Zenodo. Also update the bibtex and recommended citation in about.rst.
Modify several other files to point to the new version number, in particular:
installing.rst , installing_pip.rst, installing_more_options.rst, contents.rst, docker_image.rst.
Update conf.py to the new version number, and also $CLAW/doc/gallery/conf.py
Updating the apps repository¶
Ideally all the apps in the Clawpack Applications repository should be rerun with the new release and any issues fixed. If old apps are modified, add a note to the README.rst file in the directory that indicates when it was last updated and to what release. Some apps already have a section at the end of this file of the form:
Version history:
----------------
- Updated for Clawpack 5.3.0 on 15 Sept 2015
- Updated for Clawpack 5.4.0 on 4 Jan 2017
Updating the Dockerfile¶
Note that unlike the tar file for a new release, the docker image includes a clone of the apps repository, so it would be best to first update that repository if necessary.
Clone the repository https://github.com/clawpack/docker-files
Make a new Dockerfile for the new version by copying an old one and changing the version numbers in it. Make any other changes needed for this new release.
See the README.md file in that repo for instructions on building an image and pushing it to dockerhub (which requires push permission).
