scripts: A script to create an Etherpad release (#4538)

bin/release.js

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+'use strict';
+const fs = require('fs');
+const child_process = require('child_process');
+const semver = require('../src/node_modules/semver');
+
+/*
+
+Usage
+
+node bin/release.js patch
+
+*/
+const usage = 'node bin/release.js [patch/minor/major] -- example: "node bin/release.js patch"';
+
+const release = process.argv[2];
+
+if(!release) {
+  console.log(usage);
+  throw new Error('No release type included');
+}
+
+const changelog = fs.readFileSync('CHANGELOG.md', {encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r'});
+let packageJson = fs.readFileSync('./src/package.json', {encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r'});
+packageJson = JSON.parse(packageJson);
+const currentVersion = packageJson.version;
+
+const newVersion = semver.inc(currentVersion, release);
+if(!newVersion) {
+  console.log(usage);
+  throw new Error('Unable to generate new version from input');
+}
+
+const changelogIncludesVersion = changelog.indexOf(newVersion) !== -1;
+
+if(!changelogIncludesVersion) {
+  throw new Error('No changelog record for ', newVersion, ' - please create changelog record');
+}
+
+console.log('Okay looks good, lets create the package.json and package-lock.json');
+
+packageJson.version = newVersion;
+
+fs.writeFileSync('src/package.json', JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2));
+
+// run npm version `release` where release is patch, minor or major
+child_process.execSync('npm install --package-lock-only', {cwd: `src/`});
+// run npm install --package-lock-only <-- required???
+
+child_process.execSync(`git checkout -b release/${newVersion}`);
+child_process.execSync(`git push origin release/${newVersion}`);
+
+child_process.execSync(`make docs`);
+child_process.execSync(`git clone git@github.com:ether/ether.github.com.git`);
+child_process.execSync(`cp -R out/doc/ ether.github.com/doc/${newVersion}`);
+
+console.log('Once merged into master please run the following commands');
+console.log(`git tag -a ${newVersion} && git push origin master`);
+console.log(`cd ether.github.com && git add . && git commit -m ${newVersion} docs`);
+
+console.log('Once the new docs are uploaded then modify the download link on etherpad.org and then pull master onto develop';
+console.log('Finally go public with an announcement via our comms channels :)');