[GitHub] wohali commented on issue #908: Fix release build process tooling

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wohali commented on issue #908: Fix release build process tooling
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/908#issuecomment-338420224
 
 
   I mostly filed this ticket for myself, but if you wanted to submit a PR and join the team, feel free!
   
   FYI what you suggest is what we do already; the current source of truth is `rel/reltool.config` and is leveraged by the Erlang build tool `rebar` to set the version number in the build process.
   
   In general, our process works and doesn't need a complete rework. There's really only 3 specific small things I'm trying to address here:
   
   1. The Makefile prints a convenience diff from the current RC to a previous RC. I'm not sure we need it, and was going to propose just dropping it.
   1. The Makefile has a "quick hack" hard-coded version number that it uses solely for the naming of the release artefact. It should be pulling that number from `rel/reltool.config` or from a tag/branch-name on the source repo.
   1. The `make reltarball` can do the same thing as above.

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