README

composer-project is a composer plugin for managing a project workflow based on this Branching model

Features:

• Determine the version of the active Git branch.
• Determination of the next version of the active Git branch.
• Checks if all dependencies are stable and the active git branch can be released.
• Create a hotfix branch from a released version.
• Create a release

composer-project supports the following branches

• main
• support/[MAJOR].x
• hotfix/[MAJOR].[MINOR].x

Install

The plugin is intended to be used in a CI/CD environment and is installed there globally.

$ composer global require "sitepark/composer-project" --dev

Usage

After composer-project is installed, the following commands are available in the global composer:

• composer project:version - Outputs the current version of the Git branch
• composer project:releaseVersion - Outputs the next release version of the current Git branch. Here to the version of the last release of the Git branch is determined and for the branches main and support/[MAJOR].x the minor version is incremented by one. For branches of the form hotfix/[MAJOR].[MINOR].x the patch level is incremented by one.
• composer project:verifyRelease - It is checked whether the current branch is releasable. For this it is added whether all dependencies were defined with a stable version.
• composer project:startHotfix - Creates a hotfix branch of the form hotfix/[MAJOR].[MINOR].x based on the current checked out level, where this should be a tag level. the Current tag level should always be the latest patch level of a given minor version. This version is determined and based on this version the Hotifx branch is named.
• composer project:release - Here the next release version of the current branch is determined and a tag of the form [MAJOR].[MINOR].[PATCH] is created. Releases can be created for the branches main, support/[MAJOR].x and hotfix/[MAJOR].[MINOR].x.

project:verifyRelease

You can use project:verifyRelease to check whether the current branch is releasable. This checks whether all dependencies have been defined with a stable version.

The stability of the versions is checked via Composer\Semver\VersionParser:parseStability. Possible values are: dev, alpha, beta RC or stable. The branch can only be released if all dependencies have been defined with the stability stable.

Use

composer show

To display all dependencies and their versions.

In exceptional cases, it may be necessary to create a release even though dependencies have been defined with non-stable versions. For example, the following configuration can be set for the project in the composer.json file:

{
   "extra" : {
        "verify-release" : {
                "allowed-stabilities" : ["beta"]
        }
   }
}

In this case, beta versions are also permitted. Several stability levels can be defined.