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- | ======Milestones to 4.8====== | ||
- | The release process is overseen by our release manager. If you want to step in and help with preparing parts of the releases don't hesitate to contact him. | ||
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- | **Release process:** | ||
- | - Send mail to xfce4-dev@xfce.org mailing-list 1 week before tagging. | ||
- | - NEWS files | ||
- | * Ask module maintainers to update their NEWS in svn | ||
- | * Create HTML release notes for website from NEWS files | ||
- | - Make sure the application actually compiles and that 'make distcheck' | ||
- | - Update ChangeLogs (only for module maintainers who use svn2cl) | ||
- | - Bump version numbers (drop ' | ||
- | - Rebuild po/*.po to update Project-Id-Version and prevent problems during make distcheck. | ||
- | - Tag the release in svn | ||
- | - Make release packages | ||
- | * .tar.bz2 of each module (create with 'make distcheck' | ||
- | * " | ||
- | * GUI installer package | ||
- | - Generate MD5 and SHA1 checksums, and GPG signatures for each module | ||
- | - Upload tarballs (only tar.bz2) to main server (request mirror maintainers to do a manual sync) and Sourceforge | ||
- | - Release announcements/ | ||
- | * xfce.org main page | ||
- | * Freshmeat | ||
- | * Gnomefiles | ||
- | * Slashdot | ||
- | * OSNews | ||
- | * ?? | ||
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- | **After the release:** | ||
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- | - Celebrate | ||
- | - (For stable releases) Update the csm misquote in #xfce-dev | ||
- | - (Possibly a lot more I can't think of right now) |