Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] Feedback on Automating Csound Releases

I don't think pushing a new beta on each dev merge is that big a deal as
long as we only retain the last 2 or 3 builds.

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 at 19:24, Victor Lazzarini <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for this, I think this is really helpful.
>
> It looks like the right thing. We can do the betas and when the time
> comes, the full release.
>
> One of my main concerns is to have the whole mechanism documented so
> everyone working on the project knows the score.
>
> One thing we could do is to have a beta-release branch so that we don't
> necessary make releases at every develop update.
>
>
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> On 1 Mar 2025, at 18:23, Werner Mendizabal <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 
> *Warning*
>
> This email originated from outside of Maynooth University's Mail System.
> Do not reply, click links or open attachments unless you recognise the
> sender and know the content is safe.
>
> Hello Csound developers,
>
> I’m planning to submit a pull request to automate the creation of Csound
> releases when merging into the development branch.
>
> Before proceeding, I’d like to get your feedback on whether an
> implementation similar to my own project would be acceptable.
>
> For reference, here are the releases for my project: Godot-Csound Releases
> <https://github.com/nonameentername/godot-csound/releases>. The release
> notes are automatically generated based on a GitHub release file
> <https://github.com/nonameentername/godot-csound/blob/main/.github/release.yml>
> .
>
> Key features of this approach:
>
>    - Commits tagged with "feature" or "bug" are categorized accordingly
>    in the release notes.
>    - The anothrNick/github-tag-action
>    <https://github.com/anothrNick/github-tag-action> GitHub Action is
>    used to automatically tag releases.
>    - Most of the release process is automated, simplifying version
>    management.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>     Werner
>
>