Add script to generate text for release announcement email

Generates the text to paste into the email for announcing a new
release of Gerrit. The text is generated based on a template that
is filled with values either passed to the script or calculated
at runtime.

The script outputs a plain text file with the announcement text:

  release-announcement-gerrit-X.Y.txt

and, if GPG is available, the announcement text wrapped with a
signature:

  release-announcement-gerrit-X.Y.txt.asc

Usage:

  ./tools/release-announcement.py -v 2.14.2 -p 2.14.1 -s "This release fixes several bugs since 2.14.1"

Parameters:

  --version (-v): The version of Gerrit being released.

  --previous (-p): The previous version of Gerrit.  Optional. If
  specified, the generated text includes a link to the gitiles
  log of commits between the previous and new versions.

  --summary (-s): Short summary of the release. Optional. When
  specified, the summary is inserted in the introductory sentence
  of the generated text.

Prerequisites:

- The Jinja2 python library [1] must be installed.

- For GPG signing to work, the python-gnupg library [2] must be
  installed, and the ~/.gnupg folder must exist.

- The war file must have been installed to the local Maven repository
  using the `./tools/mvn/api.sh war_install` command.

[1] http://jinja.pocoo.org/
[2] http://pythonhosted.org/gnupg/

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  2. contrib/
  3. Documentation/
  4. gerrit-acceptance-framework/
  5. gerrit-acceptance-tests/
  6. gerrit-antlr/
  7. gerrit-cache-h2/
  8. gerrit-common/
  9. gerrit-elasticsearch/
  10. gerrit-extension-api/
  11. gerrit-gpg/
  12. gerrit-gwtdebug/
  13. gerrit-gwtexpui/
  14. gerrit-gwtui/
  15. gerrit-gwtui-common/
  16. gerrit-httpd/
  17. gerrit-launcher/
  18. gerrit-lucene/
  19. gerrit-main/
  20. gerrit-oauth/
  21. gerrit-openid/
  22. gerrit-patch-commonsnet/
  23. gerrit-patch-jgit/
  24. gerrit-pgm/
  25. gerrit-plugin-api/
  26. gerrit-plugin-gwtui/
  27. gerrit-prettify/
  28. gerrit-reviewdb/
  29. gerrit-server/
  30. gerrit-sshd/
  31. gerrit-test-util/
  32. gerrit-util-cli/
  33. gerrit-util-http/
  34. gerrit-util-ssl/
  35. gerrit-war/
  36. lib/
  37. plugins/
  38. polygerrit-ui/
  39. ReleaseNotes/
  40. tools/
  41. website/
  42. .bazelproject
  43. .editorconfig
  44. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  45. .gitignore
  46. .gitmodules
  47. .mailmap
  48. .pydevproject
  49. BUILD
  50. COPYING
  51. INSTALL
  52. README.md
  53. SUBMITTING_PATCHES
  54. version.bzl
  55. WORKSPACE
README.md

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects.

Build Status

Objective

Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.

Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.

Documentation

For information about how to install and use Gerrit, refer to the documentation.

Source

Our canonical Git repository is located on googlesource.com. There is a mirror of the repository on Github.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs on the issue tracker.

Contribute

Gerrit is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!

Please read the contribution guidelines.

Note that we do not accept Pull Requests via the Github mirror.

Getting in contact

The IRC channel on freenode is #gerrit. An archive is available at: echelog.com.

The Developer Mailing list is repo-discuss on Google Groups.

License

Gerrit is provided under the Apache License 2.0.

Build

Install Bazel and run the following:

    git clone --recursive https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
    cd gerrit && bazel build release

Install binary packages (Deb/Rpm)

The instruction how to configure GerritForge/BinTray repositories is here

On Debian/Ubuntu run:

    apt-get update & apt-get install gerrit=<version>-<release>

NOTE: release is a counter that starts with 1 and indicates the number of packages that have been released with the same version of the software.

On CentOS/RedHat run:

    yum clean all && yum install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

On Fedora run:

    dnf clean all && dnf install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

Use pre-built Gerrit images on Docker

Docker images of Gerrit are available on DockerHub

To run a CentOS 7 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-centos7[:version]

To run a Ubuntu 15.04 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-ubuntu15.04[:version]

NOTE: release is optional. Last released package of the version is installed if the release number is omitted.