GusReleaseProcess

Documentation available on site

• system requirements
• required third party software

• installation instructions

  • making config file for the install process
• release notes

Release package

A release package will include

• GUS, CBIL and install projects

• the XML files defining the schema

  • $PROJECT_HOME/GUS/Model/lib/xml/schema.xml
  • $PROJECT_HOME/GUS/Model/lib/xml/schemaChanges.xml
• data migration program to accomodate schema changes if any

• documentation describing

  • system prerequisites
  • required third party software
• XML pipeline to load external data (where does these go?)
• files describing required mini-vocabs (param type, seq type, etc) (where do these go?)
• release notes

Turnkey install

• install database instance
• install third party software
• download the gus software

• set values in install config file, eg

  • location of perl
  • etc

• run installgus (takes config file as arg)

  • build GUS install -nobojects
  • schemainstall
  • install initial user
  • run build (creates objects)
  • register ga and all plugins (discovered by reading code base)
  • install mini-vocabs
• configure and run external resources pipeline

Upgrading

• install new software
• install new schema
• build objects
• run migration scripts
• use checksum to discover plugins that have changed and re-register them

Internal Release Process

• weekly build
• automated test: make new db from scratch?
• maintain release notes