Cow

The ineptly named tool which may one day supercede the older build tools.

Install

You can install this globally with the following commands

composer global require silverstripe/cow dev-master
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin/'  >> ~/.bash_profile

Now you can run cow at any time, and composer global update to perform time-to-time upgrades.

Make sure that you setup your AWS credentials properly, and create a separate profile named silverstripe for this. You'll also need the aws cli installed.

If you're feeling lonely, or just want to test your install, you can run cow moo.

Commands

Cow is a collection of different tools (steps) grouped by top level commands. It is helpful to think about not only the commands available but each of the steps each command contains.

It is normally recommended that you run with -vvv verbose flag so that errors can be viewed during release.

For example, this is what I would run to release 3.1.14-rc1, assuming there wasn't a 3.1.14 branch and I wanted to create one for the RC release.

cow release 3.1.14-rc1 -vvv --from=3.1.13 --branch-auto

And once I've checked that all is fine, and am 100% sure that this code is ready to go.

cow release:publish 3.1.14-rc1 -vvv

Release

cow release <version> will perform the first part of the release tasks. is mandatory and must be the exact tag name to release.

This command has these options:

• -vvv to ensure all underlying commands are echoed
• --from <fromversion> when generating a changelog, it can be necessary at times to specify the last released version. cow will try to guess, but sometimes (e.g. when releasing 3.2.0) it's not clear where the changelog should start.
• --directory <directory> to specify the folder to create or look for this project in. If you don't specify this, it will install to the path specified by ./release-<version> in the current directory.
• --branch <branch> or just --branch-auto will automatically branch each module to a temp branch for this release. If omitted, no branching is performed. --branch-auto can be used to just default to the major.minor.patch version of the release. It's advisable to specify this, but not always necessary, when doing pre-releases.

release actually has several sub-commands which can be run independently. These are as below:

• release:create creates the project folder
• release:branch Will (if needed) branch all modules
• release:translate Updates translations and commits this to source control
• release:changelog Just generates the changelog and commits this to source control.
• release:test Run unit tests

Publishing releases

cow release will only build the release itself. Once all of the above steps are complete, it is necessary to take the finished release and push it out to the open source community. A second major command cow release:publish is necessary to perform the final steps. The format for this command is:

cow release:publish <version>

This command has these options:

• -vvv to ensure all underlying commands are echoed
• --directory <directory> to specify the folder to look for the project created in the prior step. As with above, it will be guessed if omitted. You can run this command in the ./release-<version> directory and omit this option.
• --aws-profile <profile> to specify the AWS profile name for uploading releases to s3. Check with damian@silverstripe.com if you don't have an AWS key setup.

The release process, as with the initial cow release command, will actually be composed of several sub-commands, each of which could be run separately.

• release:tag Add annotated tags to each module
• release:push Push branch and tag up to origin
• release:archive Generate tar.gz and zip archives of this release
• release:upload Upload archived projects to silverstripe.org

After the push step, release:publish will automatically wait for this version to be available in packagist.org before continuing.

Module-level commands

Outside of doing core releases, you can use this for specific modules

• module:translate <modules> Updates translations for modules and commits this to source control. If you don't specify a list of modules then all modules will be translated. Specify 'installer' for root module. You can use --push option to push to origin at the end, or --exclude if your list of modules is the list to exclude. By default all modules are included, unless whitelisted or excluded.