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author | Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com> | 2011-06-13 11:37:28 +0100 |
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committer | Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com> | 2011-06-14 17:09:55 +0100 |
commit | 6396006bb8429de3e2bbacdf7210bb67989d9bc9 (patch) | |
tree | 416ec65b1d466a82e25877cd270c20d91c19af1b | |
parent | 800f5e6d6e864bc6f120416927d30f6f5adda9ff (diff) | |
download | cogl-6396006bb8429de3e2bbacdf7210bb67989d9bc9.tar.gz |
doc: Adds doc/RELEASING
This adds some notes for maintainers about how to make a Cogl release.
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diff --git a/doc/RELEASING b/doc/RELEASING new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c1c956fe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RELEASING @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +RELEASING +========= + +When making a new release; + + - Verify that you don't have uncommitted changes; both: + + $ git diff HEAD + + and: + + $ git log master..origin/master + + should be empty. + + - Clean your work directory: + + $ git clean -xdf + + This ensures that you don't have stale files lying around. + + - Run: + + $ ./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc --enable-profile + $ make all + $ make install + + And verify that the code builds and installs from a clean Git snapshot. + + - Test with Clutter: + + Since we haven't migrated the Cogl unit tests from Clutter yet, you + should now build Clutter against Cogl and run the conformance tests: + + $ ./autogen.sh + $ make all + $ make test + + - Update the release documentation: + + - NEWS: new feature details, bugs fixed, acknowledgements + - Use git shortlog -n -s to get the list of authors + - The following bash snippet may help with extracting the list of + bugs closed: + +URLS=$(git log $1|grep bugzilla|sort|uniq) +for i in $URLS +do + ID=$(echo $i|cut -d'=' -f2) + TITLE=$(wget --quiet -O - $i|grep -e '<title>.*</title>'|sed -e 's/<title>Bug [0-9]\+ – \(.*\)<\/title>/\1/') + echo " #$ID - $TITLE" +done + + - README: dependencies, any behavioural changes relevant to + developers; + + then commit the changes. + + - Read the release comments in configure.ac + - Bump cogl_1_minor_version to the next even number + - Don't change the 2.0 version number + - Update the cogl_release_status status to "release" or "snapshot" + as appropriate. + - commit the changes. + + - Run: + + $ make release-publish + + which will: + + - do sanity checks on the build + - distcheck the release + - tag the repository with the version number + - upload the tarball to the remote server (needs SSH account) + + - Bump cogl_1_micro_version to the next odd number + - Revert cogl_release_status to "git" + + - Push the branch and then the tag, e.g.: + + $ git push origin master + $ git push origin 1.7.0 + + - Announce release to the waiting world on the blog and mailing lists. Use + the template printed by `make release-publish`. |