Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of ReleaseProcedure

Timestamp:

Mar 25, 2008, 9:02:09 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Nicklas Nordborg

Comment:

Updating release procedure

ReleaseProcedure

@@ -232 +232 @@
   i. Commit changes to the repository, `svn ci -m "Preparing release A.B.C"`
      [[br]][[br]]
- 1. Update copyright statements with the below command. Make sure that you do not break file
-    encodings such as UTF-8 and what not. One example, do not use non-US characters for developer
-    names in the source:trunk/.svndigest/config file.
-{{{
-svndigest --copyright --no-report
-}}}
-    Examine the updates and commit changes with `svn ci -m "updating copyright statements"`. For
-    this step [http://trac.thep.lu.se/trac/svndigest svndigest] is obviously needed. [[br]][[br]]
  1. Needless to say, make sure that the program is in a state to be
     released; make sure that all the tests pass, test the distribution
@@ -292 +284 @@
   i. Add a new entry to the ''Base A.B'' subsection in the '''All packaged BASE releases'''
      section. [[br]][[br]]
+ 1. Close the milestone associated with the release and replace `head` with appropriate
+    revision in log link. Add a new milestone as needed (with an associated log link like
+    ''Revision Log: log:branches/A.B-stable@3001:head'' in the description field). [[br]][[br]]
+ 1. [mailto:basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net,basedb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,basedb-announce@lists.sourceforge.net Announce]
+    the new release in the mailing list.[[br]][[br]]
  1. Merge the patch release into the trunk. To avoid confusion and
     minimize the risk of loosing fixes, this step is only performed by
@@ -314 +311 @@
 svn commit -m "Merged patch release A.B.1 to the trunk. Delta A.B.1 - A.B"
 }}}
- 1. ''Performing this step is to acknowledge that the merge has been performed.'' [[br]]
-    Close the milestone associated with the release and replace `head` with appropriate
-    revision in log link. Add a new milestone as needed (with an associated log link like
-    ''Revision Log: log:branches/webservices@3001:head'' in the description field). [[br]][[br]]
- 1. [mailto:basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net,basedb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,basedb-announce@lists.sourceforge.net Announce] the new release in the mailing list.