Stardoc Maintainer's Guide

Updating Jars

Stardoc's source code currently lives in the Bazel source tree at https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/skydoc

For simplicity of use and building, Stardoc bundles two pre-built jars built from Bazel source: stardoc_binary.jar (emits protobuf documentation format) and renderer_binary.jar (turns the protobuf into markdown).

To update the jars:

  1. Update io_bazel repo commit in WORKSPACE. Update transitive deps in WORKSPACE as needed.
  2. run update-release-binary.sh

Making a New Release

  1. Update CHANGELOG.md at the top. You may want to use the following template:

Release $VERSION

New Features

  • Feature
  • Feature

Incompatible Changes

  • Change
  • Change

Contributors

Name 1, Name 2, Name 3 (alphabetically)

  1. Bump version in version.bzl to the new version.
  2. Ensure that the commits for steps 1 and 2 have been merged. All further steps must be performed on a single, known-good git commit.
  3. bazel build //distro
  4. Copy the stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz tarball to the mirror (you'll need Bazel developer gcloud credentials; assuming you are a Bazel developer, you can obtain them via gcloud init):
gsutil cp bazel-bin/distro/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz gs://bazel-mirror/github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/releases/download/$VERSION/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz
gsutil setmeta -h "Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000" "gs://bazel-mirror/github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/releases/download/$VERSION/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz"
  1. Run sha256sum bazel-bin/distro/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz; you'll need the checksum for the release notes.
  2. Draft a new release with a new tag named $VERSION in github. Attach stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz to the release. For the release notes, use the CHANGELOG.md entry plus the following template:

WORKSPACE setup

To use Stardoc, add the following to your WORKSPACE file:

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_stardoc",
    sha256 = "$SHA256SUM",
    urls = [
        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/releases/download/$VERSION/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/releases/download/$VERSION/stardoc-$VERSION.tar.gz",
    ],
)

load("@io_bazel_stardoc//:setup.bzl", "stardoc_repositories")

stardoc_repositories()

The load statement and function call after the io_bazel_stardoc repository definition ensure that this repository's dependencies are loaded.

Using the rules

See the source.