Semanticmediawiki: 2.5.0 release

[mwjames]

Tracking issue for the 2.5 release.

• Release notes
• Open issues for 2.5
• 2.5 issues already closed
• Changes since 2.4

rc.1 target: 2017-03-07

• [x] Shape rel notes
  
  
  
  • [x] Add missing commits tagged with releasenotes
  
  
• [x] Update version number
  
  
  
  • [x] load.php
  
  
  • [x] COMPATIBILITY.md
  
  
• [x] Create tag
• [x] Create tarballs
• [x] Update semantic-mediawiki.org
  
  
  
  • [x] Run composer update
  
  
  • [x] Touch LocalSettings.php
  
  
  • [x] Update the SMW configuration
  
  
  • [x] Check Special:Version
  
  
• [x] Ping testers group
• [x] Announce via mail
• [x] Do a release tweet on Twitter

Release target: 2017-03-13

• [x] Finalize rel notes (include contributors (git shortlog -sn 2.4.0...2.5.0))
  
  
  
  • [x] Add missing commits tagged with releasenotes
  
  
  • [x] Check open issues
  
  
• [ ] At least document the version highlights on wiki
  
  
  
  • [x] Full-text search
  
  
  • [x] Provenance data recording
  
  
  • [x] Property chain and language filter support in print request
  
  
  • [x] Edit protection
  
  
  • [x] Preferred property label support
  
  
  • [x] Query result cache
  
  
  • [x] Links in values
  
  
  • [x] Fixed properties
  
  
  • [ ] Special page "SemanticMediaWiki"
  
  
• [x] Update version number (2.5.0)
  
  
  
  • [x] load.php
  
  
  • [x] README.md in /
  
  
  • [x] README.md in /docs/
  
  
  • [x] COMPATIBILITY.md (release date etc.)
  
  
  • [x] INSTALL.md
  
  
• [x] Create branch
• [x] Create tag
• [x] Manage tarballs
  
  
  
  • [x] Create tarball
  
  
  • [x] Check tarball
  
  
  • [x] Download tarball to release page
  
  
• [x] Update semantic-mediawiki.org
  
  
  
  • [x] Run composer update
  
  
  • [x] Touch LocalSettings.php
  
  
  • [x] Update the SMW configuration
  
  
  • [x] Check Special:Version
  
  
  • [x] Update release template
  
  
• [x] Announce on wiki
• [x] Update version on wikidata, en, de, mw, wikiapiary and Free Software Directory
• [x] Announce via mail
• [x] Do a release tweet on Twitter
• [x] Update "README.md" and "INSTALL.md" in master according to https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/2333
• [x] Bump version in master to x.x.x-alpha - https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/2340

[mwjames]

Maybe its time to start making preparations since we are ~540 commits into 2.5.0-alpha (2.4.0 was released on Jul 9) and avoid some frustration and time constraints as I recall from the last release process.

I don't have anything big left on my task list with the following features being available:

• Experimental query cache (and stats collection)
• Full-text support for MySQL/SQLite
• Preferred property label/Property description, dynamic select of a lang version in a query using +lang=...
• @@@ annotation syntax support
• Reference and external identifier support
• Support property.chain notation in printrequests

I'm not yet ready to call for a code-freeze but I'd like some people to use the 2.5.0-alpha version (its pretty stable otherwise our tests would tell us something else and the sandbox seems fairly stable as well) to get some early feedback as a lot of extra refactoring was necessary to support those listed features.

Tests went from 2.4 ~85% coverage (Tests: 3685, Assertions: 12014) to preliminary Tests: 4300, Assertions: 13891 (~87% coverage)

[JeroenDeDauw]

I still think it'd be nice to just create a release whenever a new feature is available. Put it in the release notes, create a tag, done. No need for code freeze or a long process of trying to figure what happened half a year ago. It is what I do with Maps, and it is a lot more fun for sure.

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All good from my side

[kghbln]

This builds up pressure on me to do at least a minimal documentation. I will try to do my very best.

[JeroenDeDauw]

The dates where are wrong now: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md

[mwjames]

Tests went from 2.4 ~85% coverage (Tests: 3685, Assertions: 12014) to preliminary Tests: 4300, Assertions: 13891 (~87% coverage)

I'm officially done with 2.5, now that master contains +850 commits for the 2.5 release cycle (compared to 2.4.x) and amounts a total of 4652 tests (Assertions: 14830) it is time to close the release.

[JeroenDeDauw]

Updated the initial comment with the list-o-doom

[kghbln]

@mwjames @JeroenDeDauw What about doing -rc0 today pinging testers and release next week according to the schedule?

[JeroenDeDauw]

rc0? One starts with rc1 AFAIK

Fine from my side

[JeroenDeDauw]

Thank you @mwjames for making the release notes so fluff right off the bat!

[kghbln]

rc0? One starts with rc1 AFAIK

Yeah, it is rc.1 according to spec-item-9ff. I got off track since MW uses rc.0 O_o

[kghbln]

@SemanticMediaWiki/testers It will be nice if you could test and provide feedback. Thanks a lot.

[JeroenDeDauw]

Yeah, it is rc.1 according to spec-item-9ff.

Bleh, that's not what we've been using... does not really matter I suppose

[kghbln]

Bleh, that's not what we've been using... does not really matter I suppose

Oh, I guess semver is more complicated that one may expect. No, does not really matter as long as we get the regular releases right. I myself was more unhappy that the mailinglist munched all linebreaks. I was in grump as I saw this.

[kghbln]

@mwjames Note that sandbox still runs master thus updating beyond rc.1

[kghbln]

@mwjames @JeroenDeDauw I will add some more docu to the wiki today. Since we got translation updates today we could release tomorrow. Any objections?

[JeroenDeDauw]

Wow things are moving soooooo faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast

All OK from my side. Want me to do anything?

[kghbln]

Want me to do anything?

You could somehow retrieve the contributors. If you want https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/2318 in you could act on this one, too. + merging your pull request of today. I guess the rest may be up to me.

[JeroenDeDauw]

I'll have a look at the stuff tomorrow

[JeroenDeDauw]

The array syntax stuff provides no benefit to the user. Since there is some chance it breaks something, I'd be included to merge this AFTER the release. I suppose that does make backporting harder, so it is a bit of a tradeoff.

[JeroenDeDauw]

git shortlog -sn 2.4.0...master

688 mwjames
54 Karsten Hoffmeyer
38 Jeroen De Dauw
37 Niklas Laxström
14 translatewiki.net
13 jeroendedauw
5 Kghbln
5 Maciej Brencz
4 Siebrand Mazeland
3 jongfeli
2 Alex Winkler
2 Toni Hermoso Pulido
1 Amire80
1 Felipe de Jong
1 Jaider Andrade Ferreira
1 James Forrester
1 Justin Du
1 Seb35
1 Sophivorus
1 Stephan Gambke
1 Virginia Cepeda
1 s7eph4n

[kghbln]

Ok, let's get 2.5.0 out to the world.

[kghbln]

Given that we are now a fortnight into having 2.5.0 out and seeing the issue reports we hardly had any issues so far. This is a leap forward in comparison with previous releases. So thank you @mwjames for such robust programming flanked by automated testing.