Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of ReleaseProcess

Timestamp:

Oct 31, 2006, 5:16:04 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

MarkDoliner

Comment:

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ReleaseProcess

@@ +1 @@
+= Pre Release =
  1. Make sure the date and version number are correct in ChangeLog, ChangeLog.win32, ChangeLog.API and po/ChangeLog
  2. Update NEWS
@@ -4 +5 @@
  4. Change version number at the top of configure.ac
  5. Check gaim.spec.in, make sure that "%define beta 4" is commented/uncommented appropriately
- 6. Tag the repository
+ 6. Make a test tarball and RPM and test to make sure everything works
+
+= Release =
+ 1. Tag the repository
 {{{
 svn copy https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/branches/v2_0_0 \
@@ -10 +14 @@
     -m "Tagging Gaim release $VERSION"
 }}}
- 7. Check out the tagged code
+ 2. Check out the tagged code
 {{{
 svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/tags/$TAG gaim
 }}}
- 8. Run ./autogen.sh
- 9. Run make dist
- 10. Copy gaim-$VERSION.tar.gz to a temp directory, gunzip it, then bzip2 it
- 11. Sign the two tarballs
+ 3. Run ./autogen.sh
+ 4. Run make dist
+ 5. Copy gaim-$VERSION.tar.gz to a temp directory, gunzip it, then bzip2 it
+ 6. Sign the two tarballs
 {{{
 gpg -ab gaim-$VERSION.tar.gz
@@ -24 +28 @@
 gpg --verify gaim-$VERSION.tar.bz2.asc gaim-$VERSION.tar.bz2
 }}}
- 12. Build the SRPM
+ 7. Build the SRPM
 {{{
 rpmbuild -ta --sign --with avahi --with dbus --with meanwhile \
     --with sasl --with silc --with tcl gaim-$VERSION.tar.bz2
 }}}
+ 8. Update the two tarballs, the two signatures, and the src.rpm
+ 9. Make RPMs for lots of distributions and upload them
+ 10. Wait a few hours and let people test.
+ 11. Update the Gaim website
+  a. Change inc/version.inc.php
+  b. Add a news posting to htdocs/news.txt
+ 12. Announce via sourceforge
 
- 99. Increment version number in libgaim/version.h
+= Post Release =
+ 1. Increment version number in libgaim/version.h
+ 2. Update freshmeat.net