Document deployment schedule

[perry-mitchell]

Hi! I'm unable to find any information regarding how often the electron apps list on the website is updated. Perhaps it would be good to mention this in the contribution documentation and/or the readme?

For instance, I submitted my application "Buttercup" 10 days ago and it hasn't appeared on the website yet, so I was just wondering what the average turn-around time is for updates to be pushed to the website.

Thanks!

[zeke]

Generally speaking, PRs merged here should end up on the website pretty quickly. The flow is like this:

• PR is merged
• A Heroku Scheduler process runs the electron-apps build and publishes to npm if any changes are present.
• Greenkeeper picks up the new version of electron-apps and opens a PR on electronjs.org
• A human reviews the website PR and merges
• Commits to the website's master branch are auto-deployed to Heroku.

I have updated the title of this issue and will leave it open as a reminder to document the process and help set expectations. Alternatively, we could have a Probot bot that chimes in when the PR is closed and leaves a comment...

[whyboris]

Looking at Releases - things were getting continuously updated (and perhaps some automation step broke and the updating was too frequent). But 17 days ago, that automation hasn't been turned on, or something else is at hand -- no new releases occurred in the last 17 days.

I suspect code maintainers know about this, but I thought to mention here (and not open up a new issue)

[zeke]

I was unaware, thanks for the comment. I will look into it this week, and I've created #681 as a reminder to set up alerts for these kind of failures.

[zeke]

The release wasn't working because GitHub's git tags and the npm release version had fallen out of sync.

This is now fixed, and the latest apps are now live on the site: electron/electronjs.org-old@59bff2f

I've also opened #684 which adds some documentation about the release schedule.

I've also configured a notification so we'll get early warnings about this kind of failure in the future: #681

[vladimiry]

Hi @zeke, is the website publishing process got broken again? I can't seem to locate on the website an app that got merged 5 days ago.

[zeke]

@vladimiry investigating..