Apache Yetus 0.3.0 Release Notes

These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.

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• YETUS-337

  Major

  Upgrade version of pylint used in Dockerfile

The default precommit Dockerfile now relies on pip to grab an up-to-date version of pylint, rather than rely on the version shipped in dpkg.

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• YETUS-322

  Major

  flip verify_ result codes

This changes various verify_ functions such that 0 is always yes/true and 1 is always no/false. This should make it easier/more obvious what test is being performed in if statements. Be aware that this will likely break any personalities or plug-ins that were written against previous versions.

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• YETUS-300

  Blocker

  CHANGED_FILES, CHANGED_MODULES, etc should really be arrays

Users:

• precommit should now have much better support for source trees with files that have spaces in them.

Devs:

• this patch completely changes CHANGED_FILES, CHANGED_MODULES, and USER_MODULES_LIST to be arrays instead of strings. Personalities, plug-ins, etc, that use these will need to be updated appropriately.

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• YETUS-303

  Major

  better sorting options for releasedocmaker

Releasedocmaker now supports sorting issues based either on resolution date or issue id. The default remains the same: release date in oldest-first order.

See the docs for more information.

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• YETUS-326

  Major

  Make releasedocmaker.py lint filters configurable

Users of release doc maker can now specify which lint checks they would like used via the --lint command line argument. Available options are:

• "incompatible" - issues flagged incompatible should have release notes
• "important" - issues marked important should have release notes
• "version" - issues should have a version string of the form major.minor.other or description-_revision
• "component" - issues should specify a component
• "assignee" - issues should have an assignee
• "all" - all of the above

For backwards compatibility, the releasedocmaker wrapper script included in the Yetus convenience binary will treat a bare --lint argument as --lint=all. Users that directly invoke the releasedocmaker.py python script will have to update their invocation.

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• YETUS-156

  Major

  [Umbrella] build driver

For users:

This patch adds the qbt ("quality build tool") command in order to run test-patch as a regularly scheduled reporting tool against a source tree without the necessity of providing a patch file.

For Developers:

This feature has changed several internal structures and control mechanisms to be incompatible with previous releases:

• Previously, a text file was used add extra parameters onto the docker run command. Now this is done via the DOCKER_EXTRAARGS[@] variable.
• BINNAME now strips off the .sh extension.
• PATCH_OR_ISSUE and related vars may be empty when running in the full build mode.

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