SF.net SVN: geany:[5452] trunk/doc/making-a-release

[ntrel at users.sourceforge.net]

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:
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Add notes for making a new release.

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

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