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Release Procedure

This documents the release procedure for RO-Crate from the GitHub repository https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate

Versions assumed by this document is that 1.1-DRAFT is to be released as 1.1 (tag 1.1.0), replacing 1.0 and making new draft 1.2-DRAFT. Consistent use of -DRAFT simplifies the search-replace operations at release time, as replacing1.0 could match other strings.

Prerequisites:

A Makefile does most of the search-replacing using sed. Markdown is rendered to HTML and PDF using Pandoc and Xelatex. ro-crate-preview for the release is made using the npm package ro-crate.

This works best on a Linux or OS X machine. Installation for Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt -y install make pandoc texlive-xetex texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra nodejs npm sed
npm i ro-crate

Alternatively the Conda environment.yml can install these packages (except xelatex):

conda env create
conda activate ro-crate

Overview

  • GitHub housekeeping
    • Update team list in docs/index.md with new members in #1
    • Ensure contributors of recent PRs are in team
  • Update changelog - note the use of Semantic Versioning - RO-Crate 1.1 will have GitHub tag 1.1.0
    • If this is a later patch update (e.g. typo in context.jsonld) then tag as 1.1.1 while all 1.1 strings stays the same. No need for new DOI etc, just add to changelog as new patch version.
  • Update author-list in docs/1.1-DRAFT/index.md based on
  • Update docs/1.1-DRAFT/ro-crate-metadata.json (eat our own dogfood)
  • Announce Release Candidate to RO-Crate community - "fire in the hole"!
    • Check for typos, MArkdown rendering errors, JSON errors
    • Test examples and DRAFT @context in https://json-ld.org/playground/
    • .. ideally wait 1 week, wait for typo fixes etc.
  • Copy docs/1.1-DRAFT/ to docs/1.1/
  • Search-replace 1.1-DRAFT to 1.1 in docs/1.1/*
  • Prepare a new version of the Zenodo record https://zenodo.org/record/3406497
    • Important Do not yet click Publish! *
    • Delete the old uploads
    • Update author list for new members.
    • Update description if needed
    • Update version
    • Update (planned) release date
    • Under Related identifiers set the Alternative Identifier to the future w3id permalink https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 and the Previous version to the old permalink https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.0
    • Important Copy the pre-allocated DOI from the draft Zenodo entry
  • Check/update permalink https://w3id.org/ro/crate/1.1 in docs/1.1/*. Note that it won't work until doc/1.1/ folder exists!
  • Add DOI and (planned) release date to docs/1.1/index.md and docs/1.1/ro-crate-metadata.json
  • Note, there are two DOIs at Zenodo:
  • Render docs/1.1/ro-crate-preview.html using ro-crate from npm
  • Push docs/1.1 to GitHub and verify GitHub Pages rendering and permalinks.
  • Convert docs/1.1/index.md to HTML and PDF using pandoc
    • make
  • Tag in GitHub. Semantic Versioning so RO-Crate 1.1 will be tagged 1.1.0
  • Prepare release artifacts by copying from docs/1.1 to a temporary folder. Rename to include version in filename and upload artifacts to the release:
    • ro-crate-1.1.0.html
    • ro-crate-1.1.0.pdf
    • ro-crate-context-1.1.0.jsonld
    • ro-crate-metadata.jsonld
    • ro-crate-preview.html
  • Update Release notes in GitHub
  • Upload same artifacts to Zenodo from the GitHub release.
    • Under Related identifiers modify Identical to to point to the new GitHub release tag
    • Verify and click Publish
  • Add released version to docs/index.md
  • Announce new version to:
  • Prepare next draft:
    • Copy docs/1.1-DRAFT/ to docs/1.2-DRAFT/ and search-replace to 1.2-DRAFT
    • Delete docs/1.1-DRAFT/*, but copy released 1.1/context.jsonld back to 1.1-DRAFT/context.jsonld (avoid breaking existing use)
    • Add link to draft on docs/index.md

GitHub issues

Check state of GitHub project and Milestones. If there was no milestone for this release, add one.

Close/split resolved issues still open, and remove milestone from issues that did not make the cut.

Check recently updated issues and any open pull requests.

Ensure merged pull requests and closed issues have the corresponding milestone.

Check the current draft, e.g. https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/1.1-DRAFT/ and corresponding JSON-LD context https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/1.1-DRAFT/context.jsonld are as expected. If you have recently committed to the git repository you may have to do Ctrl-Shift-R to refresh your browser.

Preparing next draft version

Create new milestone for next release.

Manually copy release the old draft (say 1.1-DRAFT) to next (e.g. 1.2-DRAFT). This means commits within the new folder will only reflect changes since this release. We copy draft-to-draft so we don't have to undo the release-specific header (e.g. publication date, DOI).

Make sure the diff between the release directory 1.1 and 1.2-DRAFT only reflect metadata/version changes. If not, some changes have been done directly on 1.1.

Search-replace old version string 1.1-DRAFT to new 1.2-DRAFT in 1.2-DRAFT/index.md 1.2-DRAFT/context.jsonld 1.2-DRAFT/ro-crate-metadata.json and scripts/schema-context.py