Release task request for help

[Niteesh G. S.]

This is my first time writing shell scripts. If something seems like
a hack or if there is a better of doing it. Please let me know.

https://github.com/gs-niteesh/rtems-release/commit/70cbb5418ba68992a910844c3d6450ef4db17579
https://github.com/gs-niteesh/rtems-release/commit/58ed0cb3fc1f33f12de8e550979371a51e322754

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:51 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

> On 28/4/20 6:26 pm, Niteesh G. S. wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:10 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
> > <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 28/4/20 11:51 am, Niteesh G. S. wrote:
> >      >
> >
> https://github.com/gs-niteesh/rtems-release/commit/8666bcd66066512f91194660817cd42cbb8c76e9
> >      > If it is okay for you, then I will send the patch to the mailing
> >     list.
> >
> >     The repos list is now just the package names and the branch script
> >     as it
> >     is expects the repo name, i.e. .git at the end.
> >
> >
> > How should I do this? Shall I iterate over all the repos in rtems_repo
> > variable
> > and append '.git' to the end? This will happen right after the
> > declaration of the
> > variable.
>
> Yes this is fine.
>
> >     Also the rtems-releases repo needs to be added to the list of repos
> >     (and
> >     not packages).
> >
> > Done.
> > We should avoid branching this repo, right?
>
> No lets branch it. We might as well be consistent in how we manage repos
> in the project. It makes procedures in the eng manual easier, i.e. just
> one procedure to cover them all.
>
> >     I think it would be a good idea to be able to run this script which
> >     means a way to switch the git clone from ssh to the git protocol. I
> >     recently added command line support to rtems-release so I suggest you
> >     borrow that code and add an option so you can switch the git protocol
> >     and test. I would also add a switch to push, i.e. by default a push
> is
> >     not done.
> >
> > Should we take the URL from the user similar to how it is done in
> > rtems-release
> > or just ask if he wants to test? In this case, the user has to just pass
> > -t or something
> > to cmd line and it would download the sources from git://git.rtems.org/
> > <http://git.rtems.org/>
>
> Hmm lets start with an option to switch between the git and ssh
> protocols. I cannot see a use case where there is a completely different
> location for the repos. If that does arise it can be sorted out then.
>
> Chris
>
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