v1.0 Series (“Burlap”)

1.0.0

This release changes a few admin-visible components of Patchwork, so upgrading involves a few steps.

New Features

  • Patch tags are now supported

    Patch “tags”, such as Acked-by, Reviewed-by, are typically included in patches and replies. They provide important information as to the activity and “mergability” of a patch. These tags are now extracted from patches and included in the patch list.

  • Django 1.7 and Django 1.8 are now supported

  • tox support is integrated for use by developers

Upgrade Notes

  • Migrations are now executed using the Django migrations framework.

    Future database migrations will be implemented using Django Migrations, rather than raw SQL scripts. Before switching to Django migrations, first apply any unapplied migrations in the lib/sql/migration folder. For example, on postgres:

    $ psql -f lib/sql/migration/015-add-patch-tags.sql patchwork
    $ psql -f lib/sql/grant-all.postgres.sql patchwork
    

    Once applied, configure the required Django Migration tables using the migrate managment command:

    $ ./manage.py migrate --fake-initial
    
  • Moved Patchwork source from the apps directory to the top level directory.

    Any scripts or tools that call Patchwork applications, such as parsemail.sh, must be updated to reference the new location of these scripts. To do this, simply remove apps/ from the path, i.e. apps/patchwork/ becomes patchwork.

  • The patchwork-cron.py script has been replaced by the cron management command.

    Any references to the former should be updated to the latter. The cron management command can be called like so:

    $ ./manage.py cron
    
  • The settings.py file has been updated to reflect modern Django practices.

    You may need to manually migrate your existing configuration to the new settings file(s). By default, settings are read from patchwork/settings/production.py. To migrate, use the provided template:

    $ cp patchwork/settings/production{.example,}.py
    

    Merge your previous settings, usually located in apps/local_settings.py, to this file.

    In addition, any scripts that set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will need to be updated to reflect the new location, typically:

    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=patchwork.settings.production
    
  • Django staticfiles is now used to to gather static files for for serving via a web server

    Static content should now be located in the folder indicated by STATIC_ROOT. This should point to somewhere sensible, such as the absolute path of htdocs/static in the Patchwork tree. Configure the STATIC_ROOT setting in your settings file, then run the collectstatic management command:

    $ ./manage.py collectstatic
    

    Finally, update your webserver configuration to serve the static content from this new location. Refer to the sample web configuration files provided in lib for more information.

  • Django 1.5 is no longer supported

  • Python 2.5 support was broken and is officially no longer supported

Deprecation Notes

  • Django 1.6 support will be removed in a future release
  • Raw SQL migration scripts, currently found at lib/sql/migration, will no longer be updated and will be removed in a future release. The Django Migration framework, found in Django 1.7 and above, should be used instead.