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The ReleaseStatus Product

The ReleaseStatus product expects that two environmental variables have been defined. The first, RELEASESTATUSWEBLET_DIR, identifies a directory into which the collection of web files will be put that result from a ReleaseStatus run. The second, RELEASESTATUSCONFIG_DIR, identifies a directory that holds a annotation sub-directory and a releaseDatabase file. The former contains the annotations for each release as created by ReleaseStatusAnnotate.py. The latter is the persistent object database that records the historical values of objects with release information as determined in multiple runs of the ReleaseStatus product.

To use the ReleaseStatus product interactively, define the above environmental variables, do "setup ReleaseStatus" and then invoke the program with "ReleaseStatus".

To use the ReleaseStatus product on a periodic basis, arrange that a conr job invoke the shell script ReleaseStatus/bin/UpdateReleaseStatus.sh.

This will invoke ReleaseStatus.py which will create the annotation sub-directory and the file named "releaseDatabase" to hold the persistent objects which are the release info objects if they don't exist. It will also use files in ReleaseStatus/notes and ReleaseStatus/image sub-directories to produce the html files in the Weblet directory. It will also use ReleaseStatus.rc as a resource file to specify basic parameters of the weblet.

To make an annotation to a release you invoke ReleaseStatusAnnotate.py.

• This python script takes as its first argument the release name that you want to annotate.
• The second argument is a flag which indicates where the anntation is located. '-f' if you have stored your annotation in a file, in which case an optional third argument will be required.
• The third argument will be the file name where the annotation is. '-m' if you will provide the annotation as a string, in which case the third argument will be the string.

The format is:

ReleaseStatusAnnotate.py [-f | -m ]