docs/random/release: Some updates to the release procedure.

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* docs/random/release:
Some updates to the release procedure.
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Jan Schmidt 2007-06-26 11:57:23 +00:00
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2007-06-26 Jan Schmidt <thaytan@mad.scientist.com>
* docs/random/release:
Some updates to the release procedure.
2007-06-26 Stefan Kost <ensonic@users.sf.net>
* gst/gstelementfactory.c: (__gst_element_details_clear):

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@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ RELEASE PROCEDURE:
- before release:
- make sure all blocker bugs for that release are fixed or deferred
- make sure you have a local copy of all online files
- Make one or more prereleases
- Make sure you've got the latest clean CVS of the module
- Run bin/data-get in www/ to sync data from website
- Bump the nano number to > 2 (eg, first pre-release for
0.10.12 is 0.10.11.2)
- Re-autogen if not in maintainer-mode (which you should be)
- run 'make release' to build the tarballs
- copy tarballs+md5 sums to the data/src/$module/pre/ dir
- Run bin/data-put in www/ to sync the new tarballs to the website
- Announce the availability of the new tarballs
- Tell the translation project by sending an email to
translation@iro.umontreal.ca, eg:
Subject: gst-plugins-bad-0.10.5.2.pot available
Tarball is at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/pre/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.5.2.tar.bz2
FIXME: Not sure if the translation project bot parses version strings
with a nano correctly.
- bin/new-release (module) (version) (checkoutdir) (release name)
- updates cvs
- allows you to update versioning in configure.ac
@ -63,18 +80,26 @@ RELEASE PROCEDURE:
- tag tree
for example for 0.6.3 :
cvs tag RELEASE-0_6_3
- bump nano number, commit
- bump nano number in configure.ac, commit
- if working in the "stable" release branch, update to this tag to freeze it:
cvs up -r RELEASE-0_6_3
- sync source and packages to website
- add entry on website; commit additions to website
+ run /bin/data-put in www
- change versions in www/src/htdocs/entities.gst
- add entry on website
+ Edit src/htdocs/news/news.xml and add a new item at the bottom.
- commit additions to website
- add versions and milestones in bugzilla
- upload new tarballs to gnome ftp
+ e.g:
scp gstreamer-0.10.42.tar.gz master.gnome.org:
ssh master.gnome.org
install-module gstreamer-0.10.42.tar.gz
- Send release announcements to:
gstreamer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net gstreamer-announce@lists.sourceforge.net kde-multimedia@kde.org gnome-multimedia@gnome.org
- Update freshmeat with new releases (get Uraeus to do it)
Old release notes - superceded by the www/bin/new-release script.
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