[parted-devel] Release procedure

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 15:05 -0500, David Olsson wrote:
> Does this team have a documented release procedure?  I sketched one on
> the wiki at
> http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/ReleaseProcedure, or see below.  Please correct, add, or subtract, or say we don't need this.  My idea is that any documentation pertaining to parted development or use in general should be in the tree.  Anything specific to this team might better belong in the wiki.  Thoughts?  Feel free to change the wiki page or respond here for discussion.  Thanks.  Hope I'm not being presumptuous.  Good word, that: presumptuous. 
> 
> ~David O.
> 
> ReleaseProcedure:
> 
> = How To Release a New Parted =
> 
> Pay attention to these items during development, then check them off
> at release time.
> 
>  * Update regression tests.
>  * Run regression tests. 
>  * Test platforms (see manual).
>  * Write release notes.
>  * Update copyright dates.
>  * Update manual (including copyright, history, and index).
>  * Update other docs, see PartedDocumentation.
>  * Copy to repositories and update info there. 
>   * GNU project pages
>   * freshmeat project page
>   * ?

See the scripts/release/tarball_upload.sh script.  I have done the other
things by hand that you mention.  I have a local document.  I'll add the
contents to the wiki.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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