Improve release procedures for add-ons on plone.org

[limi]

Document a release process, and create release tools for packaging and uploading products from the command line.

• Provide a tool that contains changes in distutils for Python 2.4 and 2.5, so it can register and upload to several PyPI-like servers. Change distutils in Python 2.6 accordingly

• Pypi support in PloneSoftwareCenter

• Write a guideline

• work on plone.org PSC migration step

[tarek]

Steps:

• 02/19 : Provide a tool that contains changes in distutils for Python 2.4 and 2.5, so it can register and upload to several PyPI-like servers.

• 02/23 : Change distutils in Python 2.6 accordingly

• 03/15 : provide a guideline

• ParisSprint : Finish PyPI support in PloneSoftwareCenter

[tarek]

Step #1 is done, in iw.dist. Which provides two new commands, called 'mupload' and 'mregister'

[tarek]

For plone.org, I think we should think about a seperated instance for the SoftwareCenter.

The migration process should be transparent since all PSC changes were non-destructive, but we also should consider a file system storage (FileSystemStorage i guess) to store all eggs and tarballs

[tarek]

status upgrade:  http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/plone-paris-sprint-wrapup-3-newploneorg-collectivedist-released/

[tarek]

Task status: the work is almost finished and I am focusing on making the lasts changes to PSC/Plone.org.

upcoming events

• We are doing a sprint for plone.org with Alex Clark next week end. this is the third one and we're hoping to finish plone.org related work soon.

• I am going to submit a tutorial for Washington DC Plone Symposium in October, explaining how to write, release and distribute plone packages using buildout and the set of tools built. I will wrapup documentation for the community and publish it at plone.org.

I am expecting a lot of feedback from the community during this event if my tutorial is accepted.

Task details

• change distutils so it handle multiple servers: DONE, available in Python trunk. See  http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/packageindex.html

• provide a package with distutils enhancements, for Python 2.4 and 2.5: DONE, available in the collective. See:  http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.dist.

• provide a tutorial on how to use collective.dist: DONE. available in collective.dist, see  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.dist

• work on PloneSoftwareCenter to make it support cheeseshop APIs.
  • work done:
    • works with distutils
    • each project can hold several packages, given their distutils id
    • now the storage of eggs/tarballs is pluggable and a new storage can be written as a separate package
      • AT/ZODB storage by default
      • collective.psc.externalstorage provides ExternalStorage
      • collective.psc.blobstorage provides blobstorage
  • work left:
    • finish the code in the blob storage plugin
    • provide migration function when a user move from a storage kind to another

• work on plone.org.
  • work left: write migration steps, test new.plone.org
  • make sur collective.psc.mirroring work nicely with apache
  • fix the blob issues (zodb version)