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author | Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> | 2020-06-07 15:46:51 +0200 |
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committer | Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> | 2020-06-07 15:48:42 +0200 |
commit | 7b75424f28bd1ed1e4cca613e182d09b7eab4009 (patch) | |
tree | c6e7b845759d60262f634de07bf72c33ef421c21 /devel | |
parent | d285844ffd7c134048e58a34f5199add841f072b (diff) | |
download | gnutls-7b75424f28bd1ed1e4cca613e182d09b7eab4009.tar.gz |
RELEASES.md: move the release steps to devel/ [ci skip]tmp-doc-fixes
As the information is only useful to developers, having it under
devel/ rather than in the tarball is more releavant.
Signed-off-by: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'devel')
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/devel/release-steps.md b/devel/release-steps.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..04e7b2dfa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/release-steps.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Release process + + 0. Create a new 'milestone' for the next release and move all issues present in the + current release milestone. + 1. Verification of release notes: ensure that release notes ([NEWS](NEWS)) exist + for this release, and include all significant changes since last release. + 2. Update of release date in [NEWS](NEWS), and bump of version number in + [configure.ac](configure.ac) as well as soname numbers in [m4/hooks.m4](m4/hooks.m4). + 3. make distcheck + 4. git tag -s $(VERSION). The 3.6.12 was including both the 3.6.12 and + gnutls_3_6_12 tags, but it may make sense to only use the version from + now on. + 5. git push && git push --tags + 6. make dist && gpg --sign --detach gnutls-$(VERSION).tar.xz + 7. scp gnutls-$(VERSION).tar.xz* ftp.gnupg.org:/home/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.6/ + 8. Create and send announcement email based on previously sent email to the list and + [NEWS](NEWS) file. + 9. Create a NEWS entry at [web-pages repository](https://gitlab.com/gnutls/web-pages/-/tree/master/news-entries), + and/or [a security advisory entry](https://gitlab.com/gnutls/web-pages/-/tree/master/security-entries) + if necessary. The NEWS entry is usually pointing to the announcement email. + A commit auto-generates the [gnutls web site](https://gnutls.gitlab.io/web-pages/) + which is mirrored twice a day by www.gnutls.org. +10. Use the @GnuTLS twitter account to announce the release. +11. Close the current release milestone. |