dev/making-a-release
author Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net>
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:12:57 +0100
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These are more notes for myself than for anyone else's benefit, but
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I can never remember what all the steps are, so noting them here.
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- Add stanza to NEWS file
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- Ensure setup.py version number is bumped
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- Fix the actual problems (updating NEWS and/or CREDITS as we go)
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- Test with dev/chroot-test/run-test
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- Ensure year in README is up to date
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- Switch to debian
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- Merge in default
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- Update Standards-Version
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- dev/debian-build/dbuild
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- dev/chroot-test/run-test
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- When all is well, tag default and debian
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- dev/debian-build/dbuild_release
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- dev/chroot-test/run-test
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Post source changes:
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- "hg push; hg push public" (also during development)
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- Mail files in build/debian to Debian sponsor
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- Copy orig tarball into
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  ~/hg/lshift-web-personal/personal/paul/mercurial-server/
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- Pull, update, add, push for lshift-web-personal
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- Update ~/hg/lshift-web/site/mercurial-server.xml
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- Push
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- Test that web page works.
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- Make a blog post
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- Post to the mercurial mailing list