I got tired of posting release announcements to my blog so I just emailed the announcements to the redland-dev list, tweeted a link to it from @dajobe and announced it on Freshmeat which a lot of places still pick up..
Here are the tweets for the 13 releases I didn't blog since the start of 2011:
- 3 Jan: Released Raptor RDF syntax library 2.0.0 at http://librdf.org/raptor/ only 10 years in the making :)
- 12 Jan: Released Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.22: Raptor 2 only, ABI/API break, 16 new SPARQL Query 1.1 builtins and more http://bit.ly/fzb9xW #rdf
- 27 Jan: Rasqal 0.9.23 RDF query library released with SPARQL update query structure fixes (for @theno23 and 4store ): http://bit.ly/gVDp57
- 1 Feb: Released Redland librdf 1.0.13 C RDF API and Triplestores with Raptor 2 support + more http://bit.ly/hOr4HA
- 22 Feb: Released Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.25 with many SPARQL 1.1 new things and fixes. RAND() and BIND() away! http://bit.ly/flFDH1
- 20 Mar: Raptor RDF Syntax Library 2.0.1 released with minor fixes for N-Quads serialializer and internal librdfa parser http://bit.ly/fT3aPX
- 26 Mar: Released my Flickcurl C API to Flickr 1.21 with some bug fixes and Raptor V2 support (optional) See http://bit.ly/f7QncO
- 1 Jun: Released Raptor 2.0.3 RDF syntax library: a minor release adding raptor2.h header, Turtle / TRiG and ohter fixes. http://bit.ly/jHKaB8
- 27 Jun: Rasqal RDF query library 0.9.26 released with better UNION execution, SPARQL 1.1 MD5, SHA* digests and more http://bit.ly/lI7lDW
- 23 Jul: Released Redland librdf RDF API / triplestore C library 1.0.14: core code cleanups, bug fixes and a few new APIs. http://bit.ly/qqV1Rb
- 25 Jul: Raptor RDF Syntax C library 2.0.4 released with YAJL V2, and latest curl support, SSL client certs, bug fixes and more http://bit.ly/oCIIDd
(yes 13; I didn't tweet 2 of them: Rasqal 0.9.24 and Raptor 2.0.2)
You know it's quite tricky to collapse months of changelogs (GIT history) into release notes, compress it further into a news summary of a few lines and even harder to compress that into less than 140 characters. It is way less if you include room for a link url and space for retweeting and sometimes need a hashtag for context.
So how do you measure a release? Let's try!
Tarballs
Released tarball files from the Redland download site.
| date | package | old version |
new version |
old tarball size |
new tarball size |
tarball byte diff |
tarball %diff |
| 2011-01-03 | raptor | 1.4.21 | 2.0.0 | 1,651,843 | 1,635,566 | -16,277 | -0.99% |
| 2011-01-12 | rasqal | 0.9.21 | 0.9.22 | 1,356,923 | 1,398,581 | +41,658 | 3.07% |
| 2011-01-27 | rasqal | 0.9.22 | 0.9.23 | 1,398,581 | 1,404,087 | +5,506 | 0.39% |
| 2011-01-30 | rasqal | 0.9.23 | 0.9.24 | 1,404,087 | 1,412,165 | +8,078 | 0.58% |
| 2011-02-01 | redland | 1.0.12 | 1.0.13 | 1,552,241 | 1,554,764 | +2,523 | 0.16% |
| 2011-02-22 | rasqal | 0.9.24 | 0.9.25 | 1,412,165 | 1,429,683 | +17,518 | 1.24% |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 1,635,566 | 1,637,928 | +2,362 | 0.14% |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 1,637,928 | 1,633,744 | -4,184 | -0.26% |
| 2011-03-26 | flickcurl | 1.20 | 1.21 | 1,775,246 | 1,775,999 | +753 | 0.04% |
| 2011-06-01 | raptor | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 1,633,744 | 1,652,679 | +18,935 | 1.16% |
| 2011-06-27 | rasqal | 0.9.25 | 0.9.26 | 1,429,683 | 1,451,819 | +22,136 | 1.55% |
| 2011-07-23 | raptor | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 1,652,679 | 1,660,320 | +7,641 | 0.46% |
| 2011-07-25 | redland | 1.0.13 | 1.0.14 | 1,554,764 | 1,581,695 | +26,931 | 1.73% |
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Releases that stand out here are Raptor 2.0.0 which was a major release with lots of changes and Rasqal 0.9.21; that changed a lot upwards and it was both an API break as well as lots of new functionality.
Sources
Taken from my GitHub
repositories extracting the tagged
releases, excluding
ChangeLog* files, and running diffstat over the output
of a recursive diff -uRN.
| date | package | old version |
new version |
source files changed |
source lines inserted |
source lines deleted |
source lines net |
| 2011-01-03 | raptor | 1.4.21 | 2.0.0 | 215 | 34,018 | 30,348 | 64,366 |
| 2011-01-12 | rasqal | 0.9.21 | 0.9.22 | 94 | 11,641 | 5,712 | 17,353 |
| 2011-01-27 | rasqal | 0.9.22 | 0.9.23 | 25 | 5,663 | 5,199 | 10,862 |
| 2011-01-30 | rasqal | 0.9.23 | 0.9.24 | 48 | 1,107 | 227 | 1,334 |
| 2011-02-01 | redland | 1.0.12 | 1.0.13 | 96 | 3,721 | 5,627 | 9,348 |
| 2011-02-22 | rasqal | 0.9.24 | 0.9.25 | 64 | 3,857 | 1,333 | 5,190 |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 42 | 6,163 | 5,833 | 11,996 |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 9 | 55 | 12 | 67 |
| 2011-03-26 | flickcurl | 1.20 | 1.21 | 19 | 737 | 308 | 1,045 |
| 2011-06-01 | raptor | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 88 | 2,827 | 2,232 | 5,059 |
| 2011-06-27 | rasqal | 0.9.25 | 0.9.26 | 116 | 7,130 | 4,272 | 11,402 |
| 2011-07-23 | raptor | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 33 | 808 | 103 | 911 |
| 2011-07-25 | redland | 1.0.13 | 1.0.14 | 75 | 3,681 | 5,477 | 9,158 |
| Total | 924 | 81,408 | 66,683 | 148,091 |
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Again Raptor 2.0.0 stands out as changing a huge number of files and lines. Also you can see the mistake that was Raptor 2.0.1 being corrected the same day with Raptor 2.0.2 with a few changes. This didn't seem to get tweeted. However also note that several of the Rasqal releases like 0.9.22 and 0.9.26 changed many files. The 'source lines net' column is the addition of the insert and deletes although some of those lines are the same.
Words
Words from the changelog, the release notes and the news post comparing the number of words in the rendered output.
| date | package | old version |
new version |
changelog words |
release note words |
changelog to release word ratio |
news words |
changelog to news word ratio |
| 2011-01-03 | raptor | 1.4.21 | 2.0.0 | 15,411 | 2,709 | 5.69 | 365 | 42.22 |
| 2011-01-12 | rasqal | 0.9.21 | 0.9.22 | 3,465 | 1,199 | 2.89 | 162 | 21.39 |
| 2011-01-27 | rasqal | 0.9.22 | 0.9.23 | 318 | 135 | 2.36 | 52 | 6.12 |
| 2011-01-30 | rasqal | 0.9.23 | 0.9.24 | 450 | 254 | 1.77 | 59 | 7.63 |
| 2011-02-01 | redland | 1.0.12 | 1.0.13 | 778 | 235 | 3.31 | 73 | 10.66 |
| 2011-02-22 | rasqal | 0.9.24 | 0.9.25 | 1,649 | 558 | 2.96 | 136 | 12.13 |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 247 | 76 | 3.25 | 50 | 4.94 |
| 2011-03-20 | raptor | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 42 | 27 | 1.56 | 42 | 1.00 |
| 2011-03-26 | flickcurl | 1.20 | 1.21 | 119 | - | - | 68 | - |
| 2011-06-01 | raptor | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 872 | 266 | 3.28 | 28 | 31.14 |
| 2011-06-27 | rasqal | 0.9.25 | 0.9.26 | 4,410 | 970 | 4.55 | 96 | 45.94 |
| 2011-07-23 | raptor | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 517 | 345 | 1.50 | 77 | 6.71 |
| 2011-07-25 | redland | 1.0.13 | 1.0.14 | 1,347 | 620 | 2.17 | 88 | 15.31 |
| Total | 29,625 | 7,394 | 1,296 |
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So now we get to words. Yes, lots of words, most of them by me. Starting with the changelog which is a hand edited version of the SVN and later GIT changes was over 15K words for Raptor 2.0.0. And that gets boiled down lots into release notes, news and then a terse tweet. Since the changelog corresponds roughly to source changes but the news to user visible changes like APIs, you can see that the oddities are again Rasqal 0.9.26 where there were lots of changes but not so much news; it was mostly internal work.
Now I need to go summarise this blog post in a tweet:
Releases = Tweets in 1156 words http://bit.ly/n88ZIQ