Release Cutter

Helpful scripts for cutting a Zig release.

Making a New CI Tarball

First, use zig-bootstrap to build the relevant tarball(s) for the targets the CI needs.

Next, run the update-ci-tarballs.zig script. It has its own usage text to guide you through the process. The final step is using s3cmd to upload the tarballs. The script prints suggested commands for you to run which you can copy and paste.

Next you have to do CI chores to update to the new tarball. Each CI system has their own different chore you have to do.

• ci.ziglang.org
  • copy the x86_64-linux-musl tarball to ci.ziglang.org:/depot/deps
  • ssh into ci.ziglang.org and follow these directions, with two modifications:
    • replace zig+llvm+lld+clang-x86_64-linux-musl-0.9.1.tar.xz and zig+llvm+lld+clang-aarch64-macos-none-0.9.1.tar.xz with your new tarballs.
    • bump the version of debian-amd64:11.1-9 to the next number after the one in the main zig git repo, the image fields of ci/zinc/drone.yml.
  • in the main zig git repo, update the image fields of ci/zinc/drone.yml.
• azure
  • in the main zig git repo, update ZIG_LLVM_CLANG_LLD_NAME in azure/pipelines.yml.
  • in the main zig git repo, update CACHE_BASENAME in azure/macos_script.
• drone
  • rent an arm64 server from e.g. vultr or digitalocean
  • use docker-zig to build and publish an updated docker image
  • in the main zig git repo, update the image fields of ci/drone/drone.yml
• lavahut
  • in the main zig git repo, update CACHE_BASENAME in srht/freebsd_script.

Template for Copying Artifacts from FreeBSD Server

1. Rent FreeBSD VPS and run zig-bootstrap on it.
2. cd into zig-bootstrap, run these with the IP edited:

rsync -avzu root@96.30.194.18:zig-bootstrap/out/x86_64-native-baseline/ ./out/x86_64-freebsd-gnu-baseline/
rsync -avzu root@96.30.194.18:zig-bootstrap/out/zig-x86_64-native-baseline/ ./out/zig-x86_64-freebsd-gnu-baseline/

Then you can use the update-ci-tarballs.zig script including for FreeBSD.

GitHub GraphQL Snippets

List All the Tiers

These are hard-coded into the script; if these change the .zig code must be updated.

{
  organization(login: "ziglang") {
    sponsorsListing {
      tiers(first: 20) {
        nodes {
          id
          name
          description
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Output: (2021-12-18)

{
  "data": {
    "organization": {
      "sponsorsListing": {
        "tiers": {
          "nodes": [
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM5NDY1",
              "name": "$5 a month",
              "description": "A meaningful contribution for a nimble organization. \r\n"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM2Mjgy",
              "name": "$10 a month",
              "description": "Let's reclaim control of Open Source software development!"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM2Mjgz",
              "name": "$15 a month",
              "description": "Like the previous tier, but it seems the compiler decided to add some padding. Thank you very much!"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM0MDcy",
              "name": "$25 a month",
              "description": "This funds 30 minutes of paid developer work per month. Brilliant!"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM0MDcx",
              "name": "$50 a month",
              "description": "This funds one hour of paid developer work per month.\r\n\r\nAs a reward:\r\n\r\n* Your name listed in the official release notes with every release of Zig."
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM0MDcw",
              "name": "$100 a month",
              "description": "This funds two hours of paid developer work per month. With just 40 other people donating this amount, it would be enough to hire someone.\r\n\r\nAs a reward:\r\n\r\n* Your name **with a hyperlink to your home page** listed in the official release notes with every release of Zig."
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM0MDc1",
              "name": "$200 a month",
              "description": "This funds 4 hours of paid developer work per month. With just 20 other people donating this amount, it would be enough to hire someone.\r\n\r\nAs a reward:\r\n * Your name **with a hyperlink to your home page** listed in the official release notes with every release of Zig.\r\n * Your name listed at the bottom of ziglang.org landing page."
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjM0MDc3",
              "name": "$400 a month",
              "description": "This funds 8 hours of paid developer work per month. With just 10 other people donating this amount, it would be enough to hire someone.\r\n\r\nAs a reward:\r\n\r\n * Your name **with a hyperlink to your home page** listed in the official release notes with every release of Zig.\r\n * Your name **with a hyperlink to your home page** listed at the bottom of ziglang.org landing page.\r\n"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjUwMDE0",
              "name": "$1,200 a month",
              "description": "This funds 24 hours of paid developer work per month.\r\n\r\nA good option for companies that intend to donate using GitHub Sponsors.\r\nPlease contact us for alternative donation methods and any other requests.\r\n"
            },
            {
              "id": "MDEyOlNwb25zb3JzVGllcjUwMjgx",
              "name": "$5,000 a month",
              "description": "This funds 100 hours of paid developer work per month!\r\n\r\nWith your help, we're going to take off every Zig at the speed of light!\r\n"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Obtain the Full Data Set

Ideally the tool would do this automatically but I didn't bother to set that up yet, and I'm not willing to do it in any other language than Zig. Pull requests using other programming languages will be REJECTED!!!

In the meantime, there's this explorer thing.

query GetSponsors($tierId: ID) {
  organization(login: "ziglang") {
    sponsors(tierId: $tierId, first: 100) {
      nodes {
        ... on User {
          id
          name
          login
          twitterUsername
          websiteUrl
        }
        ... on Organization {
          id
          name
          login
          twitterUsername
          websiteUrl
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

• Do the query multiple times, annotating each result with its tierId (I couldn't figure out how to do this directly with GraphQL. Annotate each one by saving each query into a file named tiers-data/$tierId.json.
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc3EaQ"}
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc3DXg"}
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc2FHQ"}
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc2FGw"}
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc2FFg"}
  • {"tierId": "ST_kwHOAarWdc2FFw"}

Command Line Application

Now run the sponsors-html tool with no arguments and follow the help instructions that it prints.