Difference between revisions of "Release engineering notes"
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* check copyright years in project-wide stuff |
* check copyright years in project-wide stuff |
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| − | * make depend |
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| + | * make sure you're in a build tree that's not the source tree and configured using <code>--enable-maintainer-mode</code> |
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| − | * update patchlevel.h |
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| + | * <code>make depend</code> and commit if changed |
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| − | * regenerate manpages |
+ | * regenerate manpages: <code>(cd man && make man)</code> and commit if changed |
| − | * regenerate localization template |
+ | * regenerate localization template <code>(cd po && make update-po)</code> and commit if changed |
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+ | * manually edit patchlevel.h to reflect the new release |
| + | * manually update README |
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** dates |
** dates |
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** changes |
** changes |
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** contributors |
** contributors |
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| + | * make additional manpage and update-po commits with updated patchlevel.h |
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| + | * squash preceding commits so all versioning-related commits are a single commit (non-versioning changes should remain separate commits) |
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===Post-mkrel=== |
===Post-mkrel=== |
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Revision as of 13:34, 12 July 2016
Required manual steps
Pre-mkrel
- check copyright years in project-wide stuff
- make sure you're in a build tree that's not the source tree and configured using
--enable-maintainer-mode -
make dependand commit if changed - regenerate manpages:
(cd man && make man)and commit if changed - regenerate localization template
(cd po && make update-po)and commit if changed - manually edit patchlevel.h to reflect the new release
- manually update README
- dates
- changes
- contributors
- make additional manpage and update-po commits with updated patchlevel.h
- squash preceding commits so all versioning-related commits are a single commit (non-versioning changes should remain separate commits)
Post-mkrel
- PGP sign
- generate branded HTML docs
- edit web pages
- send announcement
