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

Hello fellow Csound developers,

I’ve opened a PR that introduces automated versioning and publishing of
Csound releases: https://github.com/csound/csound/pull/2206

With this workflow, when a PR is merged and the release label is added, a
new GitHub release will be automatically created.
Additionally, PRs labeled as enhancement or bug will be categorized
accordingly in the autogenerated release notes.

Feel free to take a look and let me know if you have any feedback or
questions!

Best regards,
- Werner

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM Rory Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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*
>>
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>>
>> 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
>>
>>