This tool helps create releases for cloud client libraries.
Presently, this works for Python, Node.js, and Ruby. However, it's designed in such a way that it could easily be used for other languages.
This tool requires Python 3.6. Either install it from python.org or use pyenv to get 3.6.
Install using pip:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade gcp-releasetool
Packages are published in two phases. First, a PR is created to update
CHANGELOG.md and the version number. Second, once the PR is merged the
merge commit is tagged and CI publishes the package.
To start the process of releasing use releasetool start from the directory of
the client you want to publish, for example:
git clone [email protected]:GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python.git
cd google-cloud-python
cd bigquery
releasetool start
Once the PR has been approved and merged, you can run releasetool tag from
anywhere in the repository to tag the commit and start CI.
git fetch origin master
git checkout origin/master
releasetool tag
If you need to change the GitHub API token associated with releasetool, run releasetool reset-config. This will delete the existing token. The next time you run releasetool start you will be
prompted to enter a new token.