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@@ -24,6 +24,59 @@ Checkouts for ssh account holders $ git clone ssh://[username@]git.freedesktop.org/git/udisks +MAKING RELEASES +=============== + +Checklist for making a release: + + - Pull translations from Transfix ("tx pull -a") + - Remember to add new po/*.po files and update po/LINGUAS + - Make sure that you pushed the POT file a couple of weeks before + this and that no new strings has been added + + - Update the NEWS file + + - Check that everything works + - Run 'make check' + - Run 'sudo ./integration-test' in src/tests + - Check that you have no uncommitted or unpushed changes + - Check there are no glaring TODO or FIXME + - Sanity-check all new API + - Ensure newly added API is marked properly with "Since: X.Y" + - Ensure that deprecated API is marked as such + + - Do the actual release (see Makefile.am, do it manually if not davidz) + - run 'make publish' + - run 'make publish-docs' + + - Tag the release: git tag -s -m X.Y.Z X.Y.Z + + - Post-release actions: + - Bump the version in configure.in + - Commit message: Post-release version bump to X.Y.Z + - Prepare NEWS file - append " (unreleased)" to version number + - Commit message: Start writing NEWS for X.Y.Z + +When doing the first micro release in a new minor series (for example +starting the 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0 etc. series), do the following + + - Update the date in man pages to "$MONTH $YEAR" e.g. "October 2012" + + - At some point after the release, create the udisks-X-Y branch + - Perform the post-release actions above on the created branch + - This is for maintenance releases + - Do this when focus is on new feature development + - Then bump version on master to X.Y.90 (prereleases for X.Y+1.0) + - Add "Index of new symbols in X.Y+1" index to doc/udisks2-docs.xml + +For maintenance releases, the rules are simple + + - Work on the udisks-X-Y branch + - If possible, cherry-pick fixes from master ('git cherry-pick') + - Do not add (or backport) any new API or features + - Do not add, remove or change any translatable strings + - Do not add new dependencies + COMMITTING CODE =============== |