Prepare Beta Release

[NullVoxPopuli]

In an attempt to prepare the release, I noticed that there are a lot of manual steps.

I don't like manual steps, so I made a script to test out.

This script is is how I interpreted the instructions in RELEASE.md

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# This script automates portions of the RELEASE.md so we don't have to parse out either verbose or ambiguous lanugage
# (no fault against any writer of a RELEASE.md, but there is a lot of things to make sure are correct, and codifying it is good to do)
#
# Script requires:
# - Built-ins
#   - uuid
#   - mktemp
#   - sed
# - Need installed
#   - jq
#   - git
#


main="origin/main"
branch_name="merge-release"
target="origin/beta"
upstream="origin/release"

function run() {
  git fetch

  if [ `git rev-parse --verify $branch_name 2>/dev/null` ]
  then
    # a uuid is used so we can repeatedly run this script locally without dealing with conflict / branch collision UI
    local id=$(uuid)
    echo "Branch, $branch_name, already exists, using different branch name: $branch_name-$id"
    branch_name="$branch_name-$id"
  fi

  echo "Creating new branch: $branch_name from $target"
  git checkout --no-track -b $branch_name $target

  echo "Updating from $upstream"
  git merge $upstream --no-ff

  echo "Reverting changes for workflows, release files, etc"
  git checkout $target -- .release-plan.json
  git checkout $target -- .github/

  echo "Reverting the 'version' and 'release-plan' change from $upstream as we are on the $target train, and we want to keep the values on $target"
  local version_at_target=$(git show $target:package.json | jq '.version' -r)
  local release_config_at_target=$(git show $target:package.json | jq '."release-plan"' -r)
  local fixed_package_json_contents=$(jq ".version = \"$version_at_target\" | .\"release-plan\" = $release_config_at_target" package.json)

  echo -E "${fixed_package_json_contents}" > package.json

  if [[ "$target" == "origin/beta" ]]; then
    echo "Because we're updating beta, we also want to pull in any changes from $main as well"

    git merge $main --no-ff

    echo "Reverting changes for workflows, release files, etc"
    git checkout $target -- .release-plan.json
    git checkout $target -- .github/

    echo "Updating the version for the new beta"
    # Takes the version from main, and swaps the alpha suffix with a beta suffix
    local new_beta_version=$(git show $main:package.json | jq '.version' -r | sed 's/-alpha.*/-beta.0/')
    local post_main_fixed_package_json_contents=$(jq ".version = \"$new_beta_version\" | .\"release-plan\" = $release_config_at_target" package.json)

    echo -E "${post_main_fixed_package_json_contents}" > package.json

    echo "Updating blueprint dependencies"

    pnpm dlx update-blueprint-deps --ember-source beta
    pnpm dlx update-blueprint-deps --ember-cli beta

    git commit -am"update blueprint dependencies to beta"

    git push origin $branch_name

    # We can automate more with the GH CLI
    echo ""
    echo "Steps remaining:"
    echo "- Open PR targeting beta with a PR title like 'Prepare $new_beta_version'"
    echo "- Mark the PR as an 'enhancement'"
    # up until here anyway -- the following must all be human
    echo "- Make sure CI passes"
    echo "- Merge $branch_name into $target (using the GitHub UI)"
    echo "- Check that release-plan's 'Prepare Beta Release' PR has been correctly opened"
    echo "- Merge the 'Prepare Beta Release' PR"
    echo "- Check the 'Release Beta' GitHub action to make sure release succeeds"
  fi
}

echo ""
run
echo ""

[NullVoxPopuli]

this looks correct

[NullVoxPopuli]

pnpm dlx update-blueprint-deps --ember-source beta doesn't work