Release grpc 1.63.0 on Rubygems

[ngan]

Hi, just in a polite request to please release grpc 1.63.0 on Rubygems. The Ruby fix in that version is required for us to upgrade to Ruby 3.3.1. 🙇

• ruby: register grpc_rb_sStatus as a global variable #36125

[stanhu]

@yijiem Do you know what's holding up the publishing of the Ruby gem for this release? I see this was tagged 3 days ago.

[technicalpickles]

Is the rubygem release automated? I tried looking for what triggers it, but failed to find it.

[jonyscathe]

1.63.0 was never published to PyPI either.

Edit: PyPI now has 1.63.0, so at least Python is sorted :)

[technicalpickles]

I checked on https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions and there haven't been any ruby release since 1.62.0, so we are missing releases for:

• 1.61.2
• 1.62.1
• 1.62.2
• 1.63.0

[stanhu]

@yashykt @veblush Could one of you help here? Thanks.

[technicalpickles]

I think I've found where Ruby and Python packages are built:

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/0281c0a564a33fa2445724fee21a0f2634793051/tools/run_tests/artifacts/build_artifact_ruby.sh
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/0281c0a564a33fa2445724fee21a0f2634793051/tools/run_tests/artifacts/build_artifact_python.sh

I traced those to getting used by:

• grpc/tools/run_tests/artifacts/artifact_targets.py

  Line 110 in 0281c0a

  class PythonArtifact:

• grpc/tools/run_tests/artifacts/artifact_targets.py

  Line 245 in 0281c0a

  class RubyArtifact:

• grpc/tools/run_tests/artifacts/artifact_targets.py

  Line 390 in 0281c0a

  def targets():

I haven't found what uses these targets though, and I haven't found anything that publishes. For Ruby at least, I'd expect a gem push somewhere to publish to rubygems.org.

[Vagab]

I haven't found what uses these targets though

seems to be called from here

[ngan]

Good news, everyone! 1.63.0 was just released on Rubygems: https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc

It would awesome if we can automate the Ruby release process so that it just happens when a release is tagged on GitHub. 🙏