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# Snapshot Deployment
The following instructions describe how to deploy artifacts to the Apache Snapshot Repository during development.
## Snapshot Deployment Setup
**Maven Password Encryption**
Follow the instructions at [https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html](https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html).
**Create an Encrypted Master Password**
```
mvn --encrypt-master-password
```
This will generate an encrypted password. Create a `settings-security.xml` file at `~/.m2/settings-security.xml` if it doesn't exist.
Add the encrypted master password to this file.
```
{ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE}
```
**Create an Encrypted Version of your Apache Password**
```
mvn --encrypt-password
```
Add a server entry to your `~/.m2/settings.xml` file (create this file if it doesn't already exist). This server entry will have the
Apache Snapshot ID, your Apache ID, and your encrypted password.
```
apache.snapshots.https
YOUR_APACHE_ID
{ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE}
```
**Install and Configure GPG**
On OS X, download GPG from [https://gpgtools.org/](https://gpgtools.org/). One such release is
[https://releases.gpgtools.org/GPG_Suite-2016.08_v2.dmg](https://releases.gpgtools.org/GPG_Suite-2016.08_v2.dmg).
Install GPG.
Generate a public/private key pair. For example, you can use your name and Apache email.
```
gpg --gen-key
```
Your public and private keys can be verified using:
```
gpg --list-keys
gpg --list-secret-keys
```
**Clone SystemML Repository**
Since the artifacts will be deployed publicly, you should ensure that the project is completely clean.
The deploy command should not be run on a copy of the project that you develop on. It should be a completely
clean project used only for building and deploying.
Therefore, create a directory such as:
```
mkdir ~/clean-systemml
```
In that directory, clone a copy of the project.
```
git clone https://github.com/apache/systemml.git
```
## Deploy Artifacts to Snapshot Repository
Before deploying the latest snapshot artifacts, ensure you have the latest code on the master branch.
```
git pull
```
In the `pom.xml` file, the `maven-gpg-plugin`'s `sign` goal is bound to the `verify` stage of the Maven lifecycle.
Therefore, you can check that signing works by installing the snapshot to your local Maven repository.
```
mvn clean install -DskipTests -Pdistribution
```
If this succeeds, you can deploy the snapshot artifacts to the Apache Snapshot Repository using the following:
```
mvn clean deploy -DskipTests -Pdistribution
```
Verify that the snapshot is now available at
[https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/systemml/systemml](https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/systemml/systemml).
# Release Candidate Build and Deployment
For detailed information, please see [SystemML Release Creation Process](release-creation-process.html).
# Release Candidate Checklist
## All Artifacts and Checksums Present
Up to Checklist
Verify that each expected artifact is present at [https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemml/](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemml/) and that each artifact has accompanying
checksums (such as .asc and .md5).
## Release Candidate Build
Up to Checklist
The release candidate should build on Windows, OS X, and Linux. To do this cleanly,
the following procedure can be performed.
Clone the Apache SystemML GitHub repository
to an empty location. Next, check out the release tag. Following
this, build the distributions using Maven. This should be performed
with an empty local Maven repository.
Here is an example:
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/systemml.git
$ cd systemml
$ git tag -l
$ git checkout tags/1.0.0-rc1 -b 1.0.0-rc1
$ mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=$HOME/.m2/temp-repo clean package -P distribution
## Test Suite Passes
Up to Checklist
The entire test suite should pass on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
The test suite can be run using:
$ mvn clean verify
## All Binaries Execute
Up to Checklist
Validate that all of the binary artifacts can execute, including those artifacts packaged
in other artifacts (in the tgz and zip artifacts).
The build artifacts should be downloaded from [https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemml/](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemml/) and these artifacts should be tested, as in
this OS X example.
# download artifacts
wget -r -nH -nd -np -R 'index.html*' https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemml/1.0.0-rc1/
# verify standalone tgz works
tar -xvzf systemml-1.0.0-bin.tgz
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin
echo "print('hello world');" > hello.dml
./runStandaloneSystemML.sh hello.dml
cd ..
# verify standalone zip works
rm -rf systemml-1.0.0-bin
unzip systemml-1.0.0-bin.zip
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin
echo "print('hello world');" > hello.dml
./runStandaloneSystemML.sh hello.dml
cd ..
# verify src works
tar -xvzf systemml-1.0.0-src.tgz
cd systemml-1.0.0-src
mvn clean package -P distribution
cd target/
java -cp "./lib/*:systemml-1.0.0.jar" org.apache.sysml.api.DMLScript -s "print('hello world');"
java -cp "./lib/*:SystemML.jar" org.apache.sysml.api.DMLScript -s "print('hello world');"
cd ../..
# verify spark batch mode
export SPARK_HOME=~/spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin/target/lib
$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit systemml-1.0.0.jar -s "print('hello world');" -exec hybrid_spark
# verify hadoop batch mode
hadoop jar systemml-1.0.0.jar -s "print('hello world');"
# verify python artifact
# install numpy, pandas, scipy & set SPARK_HOME
pip install numpy
pip install pandas
pip install scipy
export SPARK_HOME=~/spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7
# get into the pyspark prompt
cd systemml-1.0.0
$SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark --driver-class-path systemml-java/systemml-1.0.0.jar
# Use this program at the prompt:
import systemml as sml
import numpy as np
m1 = sml.matrix(np.ones((3,3)) + 2)
m2 = sml.matrix(np.ones((3,3)) + 3)
m2 = m1 * (m2 + m1)
m4 = 1.0 - m2
m4.sum(axis=1).toNumPy()
# This should be printed
# array([[-60.],
# [-60.],
# [-60.]])
## Python Tests
For Spark 1.*, the Python tests at (`src/main/python/tests`) can be executed in the following manner:
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_matrix_agg_fn.py
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_matrix_binary_op.py
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mlcontext.py
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mllearn_df.py
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 pyspark --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mllearn_numpy.py
For Spark 2.*, pyspark can't be used to run the Python tests, so they can be executed using
spark-submit:
spark-submit --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_matrix_agg_fn.py
spark-submit --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_matrix_binary_op.py
spark-submit --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mlcontext.py
spark-submit --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mllearn_df.py
spark-submit --driver-class-path SystemML.jar test_mllearn_numpy.py
## Check LICENSE and NOTICE Files
Up to Checklist
Each artifact *must* contain LICENSE and NOTICE files. These files must reflect the
contents of the artifacts. If the project dependencies (ie, libraries) have changed
since the last release, the LICENSE and NOTICE files must be updated to reflect these
changes.
For more information, see:
1.
2.
## Src Artifact Builds and Tests Pass
Up to Checklist
The project should be built using the `src` (tgz and zip) artifacts.
In addition, the test suite should be run using an `src` artifact and
the tests should pass.
tar -xvzf systemml-1.0.0-src.tgz
cd systemml-1.0.0-src
mvn clean package -P distribution
mvn verify
## Single-Node Standalone
Up to Checklist
The standalone tgz and zip artifacts contain `runStandaloneSystemML.sh` and `runStandaloneSystemML.bat`
files. Verify that one or more algorithms can be run on a single node using these
standalone distributions.
Here is an example based on the [Standalone Guide](http://apache.github.io/systemml/standalone-guide.html)
demonstrating the execution of an algorithm (on OS X).
tar -xvzf systemml-1.0.0-bin.tgz
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin
wget -P data/ http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/haberman/haberman.data
echo '{"rows": 306, "cols": 4, "format": "csv"}' > data/haberman.data.mtd
echo '1,1,1,2' > data/types.csv
echo '{"rows": 1, "cols": 4, "format": "csv"}' > data/types.csv.mtd
./runStandaloneSystemML.sh scripts/algorithms/Univar-Stats.dml -nvargs X=data/haberman.data TYPES=data/types.csv STATS=data/univarOut.mtx CONSOLE_OUTPUT=TRUE
cd ..
## Single-Node Spark
Up to Checklist
Verify that SystemML runs algorithms on Spark locally.
Here is an example of running the `Univar-Stats.dml` algorithm on random generated data.
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin/lib
export SPARK_HOME=~/spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7
$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit systemml-1.0.0.jar -f ../scripts/datagen/genRandData4Univariate.dml -exec hybrid_spark -args 1000000 100 10 1 2 3 4 uni.mtx
echo '1' > uni-types.csv
echo '{"rows": 1, "cols": 1, "format": "csv"}' > uni-types.csv.mtd
$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit systemml-1.0.0.jar -f ../scripts/algorithms/Univar-Stats.dml -exec hybrid_spark -nvargs X=uni.mtx TYPES=uni-types.csv STATS=uni-stats.txt CONSOLE_OUTPUT=TRUE
cd ..
## Single-Node Hadoop
Up to Checklist
Verify that SystemML runs algorithms on Hadoop locally.
Based on the "Single-Node Spark" setup above, the `Univar-Stats.dml` algorithm could be run as follows:
cd systemml-1.0.0-bin/lib
hadoop jar systemml-1.0.0.jar -f ../scripts/algorithms/Univar-Stats.dml -nvargs X=uni.mtx TYPES=uni-types.csv STATS=uni-stats.txt CONSOLE_OUTPUT=TRUE
## Notebooks
Up to Checklist
Verify that SystemML can be executed from Jupyter and Zeppelin notebooks.
For examples, see the [Spark MLContext Programming Guide](http://apache.github.io/systemml/spark-mlcontext-programming-guide.html).
## Performance Suite
Up to Checklist
Verify that the performance suite executes on Spark and Hadoop. Testing should
include 80MB, 800MB, 8GB, and 80GB data sizes.
For more information, please see [SystemML Performance Testing](python-performance-test.html).
# Run NN Unit Tests for GPU
Up to Checklist
The unit tests for NN operators for GPU take a long time to run and are therefore not run as part of the Jenkins build.
They must be run before a release. To run them, edit the
[NeuralNetworkOpTests.java](https://github.com/apache/systemml/blob/master/src/test/java/org/apache/sysml/test/gpu/NeuralNetworkOpTests.java)
file and remove all the `@Ignore` annotations from all the tests. Then run the NN unit tests using mvn verify:
mvn -Dit.test=org.apache.sysml.test.gpu.NeuralNetworkOpTests verify -PgpuTests
# Run other GPU Unit Tests
rm result.txt
for t in AggregateUnaryOpTests BinaryOpTests MatrixMatrixElementWiseOpTests RightIndexingTests AppendTest MatrixMultiplicationOpTest ReorgOpTests ScalarMatrixElementwiseOpTests UnaryOpTests
do
mvn -Dit.test="org.apache.sysml.test.gpu."$t verify -PgpuTests &> tmp.txt
SUCCESS=`grep "BUILD SUCCESS" tmp.txt`
echo $t" => "$SUCCESS >> result.txt
rm tmp.txt
done
# Voting
Following a successful release candidate vote by SystemML PMC members on the SystemML mailing list, the release candidate
has been approved.
# Release
## Release Deployment
To be written. (What steps need to be done? How is the release deployed to Apache dist and the central maven repo?
Where do the release notes for the release go?)
## Documentation Deployment
This section describes how to deploy versioned project documentation to the main website.
Note that versioned project documentation is committed directly to the `svn` project's `docs` folder.
The versioned project documentation is not committed to the website's `git` project.
Checkout branch in main project (`systemml`).
$ git checkout branch-1.0.0
In `systemml/docs/_config.yml`, set:
* `SYSTEMML_VERSION` to project version (1.0.0)
* `FEEDBACK_LINKS` to `false` (only have feedback links on `LATEST` docs)
* `API_DOCS_MENU` to `true` (adds `API Docs` menu to get to project javadocs)
Generate `docs/_site` by running `bundle exec jekyll serve` in `systemml/docs`.
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
Verify documentation site looks correct.
In website `svn` project, create `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0` folder.
Copy contents of `systemml/docs/_site` to `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0`.
Delete any unnecessary files (`Gemfile`, `Gemfile.lock`).
Create `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0/api/java` folder for javadocs.
Create `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0/api/python` folder for pythondocs.
Update `systemml/pom.xml` project version to what should be displayed in javadocs (such as `1.0.0`).
Build project (which generates javadocs).
$ mvn clean package -P distribution
Copy contents of `systemml/target/apidocs` to `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0/api/java`.
Define environment variables to match version and release number used in updated `systemml/pom.xml`. Both environment variables are referenced when building pythondocs with Sphinx.
$ export SYSTEMML_VERSION=1.0
$ export SYSTEMML_RELEASE=1.0.0
Generate pythondocs with Sphinx.
$ cd systemml/src/main/pythondoc
$ make html
Copy contents of `systemml/target/pydocs/html` to `systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0/api/python`.
Open up `file:///.../systemml-website-site/docs/1.0.0/index.html` and verify `API Docs` → `Java` link works and that the correct Javadoc version is displayed.
Verify `API Docs` → `Python` link works and that the same Pythondoc version is displayed. Verify feedback links under `Issues` menu are not present.
Clean up any unnecessary files (such as deleting `.DS_Store` files on OS X).
$ find . -name '.DS_Store' -type f -delete
Commit the versioned project documentation to `svn`:
$ svn status
$ svn add docs/1.0.0
$ svn commit -m "Add 1.0.0 docs to website"
Update `systemml-website/_src/documentation.html` to include 1.0.0 link.
Start main website site by running `gulp` in `systemml-website`:
$ gulp
Commit and push the update to `git` project.
$ git add -u
$ git commit -m "Add 1.0.0 link to documentation page"
$ git push
$ git push apache master
Copy contents of `systemml-website/_site` (generated by `gulp`) to `systemml-website-site`.
After doing so, we should see that `systemml-website-site/documentation.html` has been updated.
$ svn status
$ svn diff
Commit the update to `documentation.html` to publish the website update.
$ svn commit -m "Add 1.0.0 link to documentation page"
The versioned project documentation is now deployed to the main website, and the
[Documentation Page](http://systemml.apache.org/documentation) contains a link to the versioned documentation.