parallel/doc/release_new_version

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

=== 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-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 /tmp
cd /tmp
tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
cd parallel-$YYYYMMDD
./configure && make -j && sudo make -j 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/

== Download and test ==

cd /tmp
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
cd parallel-$YYYYMMDD
./configure
make -j && sudo make -j install

== Update OpenSUSE build system ==

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=parallel&project=home%3Atange
cd ~/privat/parallel/packager/obs ; make

== Update Savannah ==

Content from release mail:

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

# No longer updated. Too long and too buggy
# 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
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/sql.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/sem.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/niceload.html

pod2html src/parallel.pod > ../parallel-web/parallel/man.html
pod2html src/sql > ../parallel-web/parallel/sql.html
pod2html src/niceload > ../parallel-web/parallel/niceload.html
pod2html src/sem.pod > ../parallel-web/parallel/sem.html
cd ../parallel-web/parallel
cvs up
cvs ci

== Update Freshmeat ==

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

== Update Twitter ==

New version of #GNU Parallel released. See what is new in this release
http://nd.gd/2j Watch the intro video http://nd.gd/0s

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

cat twitters | parallel -j1 echo @{} You have earlier shown interest in GNU Parallel. \
A new version is out: http://nd.gd/2j '|' ttytter

== Send announce ==

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

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Subject: GNU Parallel 20101222 released

GNU Parallel 20101222 has been released. It is available for
download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/

New in this release:

* GNU niceload is now part of GNU Parallel. GNU niceload slows down a
  program if the load average is above a certain limit.

* Implemented --tmpdir to buffer standard output and standard error in
  a different place.

* Implemented --load to wait until the load is below a limit before
  starting another job on that computer.

* Implemented --nice set the niceness of jobs running both locally and
  remotely.

* Implemented --dry-run to print the job without running it.

* Implemented --tty as the old default of assigning a tty to the first
  job causes problems.

* Review with focus on clusters. Thanks to Taylor Gillespie
  http://www.unixpronews.com/unixpronews-49-20101019GNUParallelSpeedUpProcessingWithMulticoresClusters.html

* Review with focus on protein similarity. 
  http://kevinformatics.tumblr.com/post/2142473893/cluster-like-computing-using-gnu-parallel

* Review in Spanish.
  http://gr3p.com/2010/12/gnu-parallel-acelera-tus-scripts-en-linux

* Quite a few 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 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/

>>>>>