SystemML Release Process

Snapshot Deployment
- Snapshot Deployment Setup
- Deploy Artifacts to Snapshot Repository
Release Candidate Build and Deployment
Release Candidate Checklist
Run NN Unit Tests for GPU
Run other GPU Unit Tests
Voting
Release
- Release Deployment
- Documentation Deployment

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.

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.

<settingsSecurity>
  <master>{ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE}</master>
</settingsSecurity>

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.

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
      <username>YOUR_APACHE_ID</username>
      <password>{ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE}</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

Install and Configure GPG

On OS X, download GPG from https://gpgtools.org/. One such release is 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.

Release Candidate Build and Deployment

For detailed information, please see SystemML Release Creation Process.

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/ 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/ 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:

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 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.

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.

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 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 contains a link to the versioned documentation.