# Remoto.Android.Utils releases ## The goals 1. Simplify release's mechanism 2. Make changelog ## Components release mechanism ### Current problems with release's publication In some sense it is totally manual. When you need to publish a new component's version you should make few steps manualy. Firstyly you should change component version. After that you should commit this changes. Than you should use dark Gradle's magic ( smth like this: `./gradlew :styles:clean :styles:publishMavenPublicationToAzureRepository`), to build and publish component to Azure Artifacts repository or local repository. And finally, you should push your commit to GitHub. ### Solution Currently `develop` branch is release branch. Developer should make tag for commit which is last commit of release and push it to GitHub. After that on CI by "push tag" event special script will be launched. This script will parse tag and run publication for specified in tag component and version. For example there are some changes in `styles` component: button styles, changes in main theme colors and new text appearances. We plan to release `1.3.0` version of styles component. All pull request are already merged into develop branch. Suppose GIT head is on right commit - last release commit. We should make tag on this commit with `git tag styles-1.3.0` command. After this on CI the publication script will be run. And finally script publish artifact to Azure Artifacts. So, the solution is consists from two parts: publishing script and CI trigger which run the script. Input data for script is tag string in format `<component name>-<comonent version>` and publication type: **azure** - publishing to release, **local** - publishing to local repository. There are trigger by new tag in branch should be in CI. This trigger run the script each time a new tag are pushed. ## Changelog ### Current problems There are only two variants to know if particular feature from ui-kit is implement. It is ui-kit-sample app and development command shared knowladge. Neither or this to variants didn't guaranty that feature implemented or not. ### Solution As soulution of this problem I recomend to use GitHub releases tool. This tool provides developers with easy to undestand changelog. It is only one requirenment - make tags. Without tag you couldn't create release on GitHub. But it should be made up by first part of proposal (Component release mechanisms). Changelog preparation could be also automated with Azure Pipelines [task](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/github-release?view=azure-devops). Another script could be made for collecting particular component changes list from git history. The scirpt could be launched by "tag is pushed" event by CI.