= Notes on how to release new version =

== Update version ==

=== configure.ac ===
configure.ac: AC_INIT([parallel], [20100422], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
perl -i -pe "s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" configure.ac

=== src/parallel ===

src/parallel: $Global::version = 20100422;

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
perl -i -pe "/version/ and s/20\d\d\d\d\d\d/$YYYYMMDD/" src/parallel

=== 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 && sudo make install

== Unittest ==

cd unittest; make unittest

== Update NEWS ==

With the same things that goes in the announce mail

== Package ==

./configure
make dist
make dist-bzip2

== Test the package ==

cp parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 /tmp
cd /tmp
tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
cd parallel-$YYYYMMDD
./configure && make && sudo make install

== Upload ==

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
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 parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.directive

YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
gpg -b parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2

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

== Update Savannah ==

https://savannah.gnu.org/news/submit.php?group=parallel
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=parallel

doc/pod2savannah_publicinfo src/parallel | klipper-stdin
https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupinfo.php?group=parallel

== Update website ==

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html

pod2html src/parallel > ../parallel-web/parallel/man.html
cd ../parallel-web/parallel
cvs ci

== Update Freshmeat ==

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

== Send announce ==

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

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to:parallel@gnu.org, bug-parallel@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org, bug-directory@gnu.org
cc:Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>, Sandro Cazzaniga <kharec@mandriva.org>,
   Tim Cuthbertson <tim3d.junk@gmail.com>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>,
   Markus Ammer <mkmm@gmx-topmail.de>, Pavel Nuzhdin <pnzhdin@gmail.com>,
   Phil Sung <psung@alum.mit.edu>

Subject: GNU Parallel 20100822 released

GNU Parallel 20100822 has been released. It is available for
download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/

New in this release:

* Counting semaphore functionality: start a job in the background. If
  N jobs are already running, wait for one to complete. Examples:
  sem 'sleep 2; echo foo'; sem 'sleep 1; echo bar'; sem --wait
  sem -j2 'sleep 2; echo foo'; sem -j2 'sleep 1; echo bar'; sem --wait

* With --colsep a table can be used as input. Example:
  cat tab_sep_table | parallel --colsep '\t' echo col1 {1} col2 {2}

* --trim can remove white space around arguments.

* --sshloginfile '..' means use ~/.parallel/sshloginfile

* Zero install package. Thanks to Tim Cuthbertson <tim3d dot junk at
  gmail dot com>

* OpenSUSE package. Thanks to Markus Ammer <mkmm at gmx-topmail dot
  de>

* NixOS package. Thanks to Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu dot org>

* Web review http://oentend.blogspot.com/2010/08/gnu-parallel.html
  Thanks to Pavel Nuzhdin <pnzhdin at gmail dot com>

* Web review http://psung.blogspot.com/2010/08/gnu-parallel.html
  Thanks to Phil Sung <psung at alum dot mit dot edu>


= About GNU Parallel =

GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one
or more machines. A job is typically 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.

If you use xargs 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. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU Parallel
will often make the command easier to read.

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/software/parallel/

Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ or
at http://tinyogg.com/watch/TORaR/ and http://tinyogg.com/watch/hfxKj/

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