Start pulling instructions out of RELEASE_CHECKLIST into scripts in reltools/ to semi-automate some of the release process.

reltools/publish_docs.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Publish release docs on the gh-pages branch in ~/json-c-pages
+# Does NOT push changes
+#
+
+set -e -o pipefail
+trap 'echo "ERROR: Unexpected exit in $0"' EXIT
+
+RUNDIR=$(dirname "$0")
+. "${RUNDIR}/reltools.subr"
+
+reltag="$1"
+if [ -z "${reltag}" ] ; then
+	echo "Usage: $0 <relver>" 1>&2
+	trap - EXIT
+	exit 1
+fi
+release=${reltag%-*}  # Strip off the date suffix
+release=${release#json-c}
+
+cd "${HOME}"
+
+if [ ! -d "json-c-${release}" ] ; then
+	git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c "json-c-${release}"
+fi
+
+cd json-c-${release}
+git checkout ${reltag}
+if [ ! -e doc/html/index.html ] ; then
+	echo "ERROR: unable to find doc/html/index.html on at version ${reltag} in $(pwd)" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+cd ..
+
+
+if [ ! -d json-c-pages ] ; then
+	git clone -b gh-pages https://github.com/json-c/json-c json-c-pages
+fi
+cd json-c-pages
+mkdir -p json-c-${release}
+cp -R ../json-c-${release}/doc json-c-${release}/.
+git add json-c-${release}
+rm json-c-current-release
+ln -s json-c-${release} json-c-current-release
+git commit -a -m "Add the ${release} docs."
+
+# TODO: automate changes to index.html
+cat <<EOF
+Steps to do:
+ * Add section with links to new json-c-${release} release.
+ * Update versions in the "Current release" section
+EOF
+read -p "Press <enter> to run vi index.html: "
+vi index.html
+
+git commit -a -m "Update the doc links to point at ${release}"
+
+cat <<EOF
+cd $(pwd)
+git log -n1 --name-status
+git log -n1 -p
+
+
+# If all looks ok:
+git push
+EOF
+
+trap - EXIT
+exit 0