dev/making-a-release
author Paul Crowley <paul@lshift.net>
Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:44:31 +0100
changeset 331 aeafdd709c02
parent 324 36400dcefb67
child 332 e205ad54973f
permissions -rw-r--r--
Update NEWS and release checklists to reflect new way

These are more notes for myself than for anyone else's benefit, but
I can never remember what all the steps are, so noting them here.

Source changes:

- Add stanza to NEWS file
- Ensure setup.py version number is bumped
- Fix the actual problems (updating NEWS and/or CREDITS as we go)
- Test with dev/chroot-test/run-test
- Ensure year in README is up to date
- Update Standards-Version
- dev/debian-build/dbuild
- CHROOT_TEST_INSTALLDEB=true dev/chroot-test/run-test
- When all is well, add release and debian tags
- dev/debian-build/dbuild_release
- CHROOT_TEST_INSTALLDEB=true dev/chroot-test/run-test

Post source changes:

- "hg push; hg push public" (also during development)
- Mail five files in build/debian to Debian sponsor
- Copy orig tarball into
  ~/hg/lshift-web-personal/personal/paul/mercurial-server/
- If need be, overwrite
  ~/hg/lshift-web-personal/personal/paul/mercurial-server/docbook.html
- Pull, update, add, push for lshift-web-personal
- Update ~/hg/lshift-web/site/mercurial-server.xml
- Push
- Test that web page works.
- Make a blog post
- Post to the mercurial mailing list