colord Release Notes 1. Write NEWS entries for colord in the same format as usual. git shortlog 1.3.4.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new Version 1.3.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2016-xx-xx New Features: Bugfixes: Write release date to doc/website/download.html Update translations: cd po make colord.pot INTLTOOL_EXTRACT="/usr/bin/intltool-extract" XGETTEXT="/usr/bin/xgettext --no-location" srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update --gettext-package colord --pot tx push --source tx pull --all --minimum-perc=5 git add *.po 2. Commit changes to git: # MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECT export release_ver="1.3.5" git commit -a -m "Release colord ${release_ver}" git tag -s -f -m "Release colord ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}" git push --tags git push 3. Generate the tarball: make distcheck 3a. Generate the additon verification metadata sha1sum colord-${release_ver}.tar.xz > colord-${release_ver}.tar.xz.sha1 gpg -b -a colord-${release_ver}.tar.xz 4. Upload tarball: scp colord-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/colord/releases/ 5. Do post release version bump in configure.ac 6. Commit changes: git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump" git push 7. Sync website with ./upload.sh 8. Send an email to colord@lists.freedesktop.org colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for more details. Tarballs can be found here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/