Update info in Dataverse Developers Guide about what happens when not specifying a branch when running script that deploys Dataverse on AWS

[jggautier]

What's written in the "Download and Run the “Create Instance” Script" section of Dataverse's Developer Guide needs to be updated.

If you don't specify a branch, the script doesn't default to the develop branch but to the latest release of Dataverse, such as v6.2 if that's the latest release.

Should we change the line:

-b: branch to build (defaults to develop)

to this?:

-b: branch to build (defaults to the latest release of Dataverse)

This section is in the Developers guide, on its Deployment page at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/develop/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/deployment.rst

[pdurbin]

It's definitely a good idea to revisit this page. I was showing it to @jp-tosca this week and basically said, "Ignore all this. I don't know if it's still accurate. Run the script with -h to print the help instead." 😅

[jggautier]

@pdurbin, then should you broaden the scope of this issue by changing its title and description? As far as I know the only update needed is about the default branch.

Or can you open a new issue about revisiting this page? Then for this GitHub issue I could made a PR to update that part about the default branch. Since it would be a small documentation change, I was thinking that we could squeeze it in this sprint.

[pdurbin]

Sure, we can keep the focus small, just on explaining what happens when -b is omitted.

[jggautier]

Okay the PR at #10589 updates that line to read that by default the branch used is the latest release of Dataverse.

Feel free to create an issue about revisiting this page. Like I wrote, as far as I know, everything else is accurate. But I'm sure @jp-tosca and maybe others have needed different info that's on the page because they've deployed Dataverse instances for reasons that are different from mine. Maybe revisiting the page could involve others trying to use this page to see what isn't accurate and needs to be updated.