Re: Release scripts ready for 3.27.3 - Quick HOWTO

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 17:15 +0000, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>     So this week I ploughed through this convert-to-tarballs.py script
> and I believe it's the last piece we are depending specifically on
> jhbuild for.
>
> So I did end up documenting how I did the 3.27.2 release here[0], but
> as things have changed in this particular regard I'll lay out an
> outline for Matthias's sake since he will be doing the release next
> week I believe - I will be in Montreal time and should be available and
> reachable during the week.
>
> So, to make the 3.27.3 release, just completely disregard the jhbuild
> modulesets, and start by cloning the read-only converted set of
> modulesets, and then run the conversion, as such:
>
> $ git clone https://gnome7.codethink.co.uk/gnome-modulesets.git
> $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/releng
> $ mkdir 3.27.3
> $ cd 3.27.3
> $ ../releng/smoketesting/bst-to-tarballs.py \
>              -v 3.27.3
>              -t tarballs/
>              -c ../releng/smoketesting/tarball-conversion.config
>              -d ../gnome-modulesets

Correction, use `convert-to-tarballs.py` directly, after chatting on
IRC I realized that all stable releases for 3.26 are already done, so
instead of adding the script on the side, we've just overwritten the
original convert-to-tarballs.py directly.

Cheers,
    -Tristan