Revision: 5452 http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=5452&view=rev Author: ntrel Date: 2010-11-30 18:12:15 +0000 (Tue, 30 Nov 2010)

Log Message: ----------- Add notes for making a new release.

Added Paths: ----------- trunk/doc/making-a-release

Added: trunk/doc/making-a-release =================================================================== --- trunk/doc/making-a-release (rev 0) +++ trunk/doc/making-a-release 2010-11-30 18:12:15 UTC (rev 5452) @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Update NEWS & release date. +Add changelog entry with release date. + +Export branch into a new directory (i.e. not usual working copy). +Run 'make distcheck'. +Delete the created archive and run 'make dist' and 'make dist-bzip2'. + +Put the resulting tarballs on uvena.de - upload to home directory +and after the upload is finished move them into +/home/www/files.uvena.de/geany/. +Rename LATEST-IS-... to the new version number in +/home/www/files.uvena.de/geany/ and /home/www/www.geany.org/files. +Tag release in SVN, remove the branch if used. +Add the GPG signatures (enrico?). +Windows builds (enrico?). + +Website: update Releases, Documentation links and add a News item +Update the manual data and links in the filesystem +(/home/www/www.geany.org/manual/) and the two links on the Manual +Wiki page. + +Announce on geany, devel, i18n mailing lists (check you're subscribed). +Put a news item on Sourceforge (add a new release on Freshmeat.net +and update the information on gnomefiles.org - enrico?). + +For non-trunk releases, merge NEWS into trunk and any branch-only +commits that need to merged.

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