parallel/doc/release_new_version

= Notes on how to release new version =

== alpha/beta/production ==

Update documentation:

git diff last-release-commit
Unmodified beta since last version => production
Unmodified alpha since last version => beta
Modified => alpha

== Update version ==

configure.ac: AC_INIT([parallel], [20100422], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
src/parallel: $Global::version = 20100422;
README: parallel-20130222
YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
perl -i -pe "s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" configure.ac
perl -i -pe "/version/ and s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" src/parallel
perl -i -pe "/version/ and s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" src/sql
perl -i -pe "/version/ and s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" src/niceload
perl -i -pe "s/parallel-20\d\d\d\d\d\d/parallel-$YYYYMMDD/" README

=== Autoconf/automake ===

rm -fr autom4te.cache aclocal.m4 config.h config.h.in config.log Makefile.in missing install-sh
rm -rf src/Makefile.in
autoreconf --install -W gnu
./configure
make -j && sudo make install

== Testsuite ==

cd testsuite; make

== Update NEWS ==

With the same things that goes in the announce mail

== Package ==

./configure
make dist
make dist-bzip2

== Test the package ==

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
cp parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 /tmp
pushd /tmp
tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
cd parallel-$YYYYMMDD
./configure && make -j && sudo make -j install
pushd

== Upload ==

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
cp parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 parallel-latest.tar.bz2
cp doc/parallel.directive parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.directive
perl -i -pe "s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" parallel-*.tar.*directive
gpg --clearsign --yes parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.directive

cp doc/parallel.latest.directive parallel-latest.tar.bz2.directive
perl -i -pe "s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" parallel-latest.tar.*directive
gpg --clearsign --yes parallel-latest.tar.bz2.directive

(echo '#!/bin/bash';
 echo;
 echo "# To check the signature run:"
 echo "#  echo | gpg"
 echo "#  gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.sig"
 echo
 echo "echo | gpg 2>/dev/null"
 echo 'gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve $0'
 echo 'exit $?'
 echo
 gpg -ab -o - parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
) > parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.sig

(echo '#!/bin/bash';
 echo;
 echo "# To check the signature run:"
 echo "#  echo | gpg"
 echo "#  gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve parallel-latest.tar.bz2.sig"
 echo
 echo "echo | gpg 2>/dev/null"
 echo 'gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve $0'
 echo 'exit $?'
 echo
 gpg -ab -o - parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
) > parallel-latest.tar.bz2.sig

gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve parallel-latest.tar.bz2.sig
gpg --auto-key-locate keyserver --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.sig

#../ftpsync/src/ftpsync parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/alpha/

../ftpsync/src/ftpsync parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/
../ftpsync/src/ftpsync parallel-latest.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/

#echo put parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} | ncftp ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/
#echo put parallel-latest.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} | ncftp ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/
#echo put parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2{,.sig,*asc} | ncftp ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/alpha/


== Update OpenSUSE build system ==

cd ~/privat/parallel/packager/obs
# Update version number
em home:tange/parallel/parallel.spec

find home:tange/parallel/* -type f | grep -v parallel.spec | parallel -Xj1 osc rm {}
# This should not create new files
osc up home:tange/parallel/
make
# Update versionsnummeret from 20110422-2 to YYYYMMDD-1
# Reload build-status:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=parallel&project=home%3Atange
# Check that one .deb (Debian 5.0) and one .rpm (CentOS) end with 'succeeded'

== Download and test ==

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
pushd /tmp
rm -rf parallel-${YYYYMMDD}*
while ! wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 ; do sleep 2; done
#wget http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
cd parallel-$YYYYMMDD
./configure
make -j && sudo make -j install
pushd
sudo cp /usr/local/bin/parallel /usr/local/bin/parallel-$YYYYMMDD

== Update website ==

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/sql.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/sem.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/niceload.html

cp src/*.pdf src/*.html  ../parallel-web/parallel
cp src/parallel.html  ../parallel-web/parallel/man.html

pushd ../parallel-web/parallel
cvs up
cvs ci -m "New release"
pushd

== Commit released version ==

git diff

git commit -a

== Update Savannah ==

Content from release mail:

cat doc/release_new_version | klipper-stdin
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/submit.php?group=parallel
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=parallel

== Update Freshmeat ==

http://freshmeat.net/projects/parallel/releases/new

== Update Diaspora Twitter ==

New release of #GNU Parallel pi․dk/0 New in this release pi․dk/2 See the intro videos pi․dk/1 
10 secs installation: wget -O - pi․dk/3|bash

[x] Twitter
Aspect: Public

GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane.

== Send announce ==

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/post
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.admin/post

https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/bug-parallel
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/parallel

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   Jesse Alama <jesse.alama@gmail.com>

Subject: GNU Parallel 20140222 ('Со́чи') released

GNU Parallel 20140222 ('Со́чи') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/

The --compress change is so big that this release is of alpha quality.

New in this release:

* --tollef has been retired.

* --compress has be redesigned due to bugs.

* GNU Parallel was cited in: Speaker Verification and Keyword Spotting
  Systems for Forensic Applications
  http://lantana.tenet.res.in/website_files/thesis/Phd/srikanth.pdf

* GNU Parallel was cited in: Scaleable Code Clone Detection
  http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/phd/schwarz-phd.pdf

* GNU Parallel was used (unfortunately without citation) in:
  Performance and Energy Efficiency of Common Compression /
  Decompression Utilities
  http://www.researchgate.net/publication/243962643_Performance_and_Energy_Efficiency_of_Common_CompressionDecompression_Utilities_An_Experimental_Study_in_Mobile_and_Workstation_Computer_Platforms/file/3deec51d1dbc0474f9.pdf

* GNU Parallel was recommended (without citation) in: Redesigning the
  Specificity of Protein-DNA Interactions with Rosetta
  http://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-62703-968-0_17

* GNU Parallel is co-distributed with RepeatExplorer
  http://www.vcru.wisc.edu/simonlab/bioinformatics/programs/repeatexplorer/README.txt

* Convert MP3 to a scrolling spectrum waterfall plot video
  http://jdesbonnet.blogspot.dk/2014/02/convert-mp3-to-scrolling-spectrum.html

* PHP wrapper class for the GNU Parallel tool
  https://github.com/geopal-solutions/gnu-parallel-wrapper/tree/master

* Exploratory Data Analysis
  http://www.slideshare.net/thinrhino/gnunify

* Single-Thread-Programme auf Multicore-Rechnern parallelisieren
  http://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2014/02/08/linux-single-thread-programme-auf-multicore-rechnern-parallelisieren

* Распараллеливаем процессы для ускорения вычислений и выполнения заданий в Linux
  http://savepearlharbor.com/?p=210480

* Bug fixes and man page updates.


= About GNU Parallel =

GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job is can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.

GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.

You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/

You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with: (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/) | bash

Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1

Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your commandline will love you for it.

When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU Parallel - The Command-Line Power Tool, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, February 2011:42-47.


= About GNU SQL =

GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.

The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.

When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.


= About GNU Niceload =

GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.