Let's stop delayed releases...

Finally, most of my projects including Karma and all its plugins are released automatically. I though it might be helpful for others, so I’m gonna try to describe the process here.

I think it would be neat if somebody made it more generic and created a service for it...

Each project uses grunt-auto-release, which does:

• fetch the latest changes from given remote repository (upstream by default)
• check for new changes (that is either feat/fix, style/tests/chore commits are ignored)
• check Travis build
• run grunt release task (assuming there are some new changes and Travis build succeeded)

Each project defines grunt release task, which typically does:

• bump the version
• generate the changelog
• update the list of contributors
• create tag
• push to upstream
• push to NPM

See Karma’s Gruntfile for an example. It uses grunt-conventional-changelog, grunt-bump, grunt-npm plugins.

The rest is kind of dirty shell script, that basically goes through all the projects and calls grunt auto-release. It also buffers outputs and send me an email afterwards.

The whole thing is run as a cron job:

# crontab -e
# run each Sunday/Wednesday at midnight
5 23 * * 0,3 /home/vojta/auto-release/cron.sh >> /var/tmp/auto-release.cron

You can also run it on Mac:

launchctl load org.vojta-auto-release.plist

Note: this workflow is based on the git commit message convention.