How to use automatic publishing?

1. Copy template.yml to .travis.yml and confirm the following:

...
deploy:
  provider: script
  script: ./docker-build --name ${DISTRO} --verbose --config .travis.yml --release
  skip_cleanup: true
  on:
    tags: true
    condition: "${TRAVIS_TAG} =~ ^v.*$ && ${DISTRO} =~ ^fedora.*$"
...
releases:
  draft: False
  prerelease: False
  checksum: True
  base_version: 1.20.0
  file_glob: True
  files: EXAMPLE-*.tar.xz           #comment 1
  servers:                              #comment 2
    - http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/

comments:

• comment 1: files, it will match the tarballs file name and need to be modified.
• comment 2: servers, when the version is successfully released on github, the servers here will receive the post request. After the server resolves the request, it knows which files should be downloaded for public release. If the server is not ready, you can delete the servers section.

2. Enable CI service for repo on the travis website.
   URL: https://travis-ci.org/account/repositories

3. Create a github personal access token using the public_repo and user:email scopes.
   Personal access tokens created using the repo and user scopes are also available.
   URL: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

4. Setup the github personal access token value to the hidden environment variables named 'GITHUB_TOKEN' on the travis-ci website.
   reference: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/#defining-variables-in-repository-settings

5. Ok, now you can create a tag and push it to github.

Note：

• The release notes will be generated from the NEWS file. If there is no such file, it will be generated from the previous tag to the HEAD's commit log.
• If there is no tag on the git server, base_version will be used as the previous version for this release.
• The POST data to the server like this:

{
  "name": "docker-build",
  "version": "0.1.63",
  "tag": "v0.1.63",
  "draft": false,
  "news": "Changes since the last release: https://github.com/yetist/docker-build/compare/v0.1.62...v0.1.63",
  "prerelease": false,
  "files": [
    {
      "name": "github_release.py",
      "size": 35314,
      "url": "https://github.com/yetist/docker-build/releases/download/v0.1.63/github_release.py"
    },
    {
      "name": "github_release.py.sha256sum",
      "size": 84,
      "url": "https://github.com/yetist/docker-build/releases/download/v0.1.63/github_release.py.sha256sum"
    },
    {
      "name": "setup.py",
      "size": 1948,
      "url": "https://github.com/yetist/docker-build/releases/download/v0.1.63/setup.py"
    },
    {
      "name": "setup.py.sha256sum",
      "size": 75,
      "url": "https://github.com/yetist/docker-build/releases/download/v0.1.63/setup.py.sha256sum"
    }
  ]
}

• Run the following command to test locally, need to set environment variables GITHUB_TOKEN:

$ docker-build -c .travis.yml -rvv

@mate-desktop/core-team

I think this is ready, is it time to merge into the master branch?

Start writing the release server, https://github.com/yetist/release-server

@raveit65

This PR can be merged into the master branch so that we can open more repos to use the clang analyzer.

Ok, let the beast run.

We can delete branch later, maybe we need it again.

No one is using this branch anymore, it's time to delete it.

@raveit65

The release server just works.

Here is a demo release website: https://mate.zhcn.cc/
I use this repo for test: https://github.com/yetist/mate-common

@yetist
looks nice:)
I will open a new issue for this where we can work on it, together with @flexiondotorg

Done #23