colord Release Notes 1. Write NEWS entries for colord in the same format as usual. git shortlog COLORD_0_1_10.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new Version 0.1.11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2011-xx-xx Translations: New Features: Bugfixes: Write release date to doc/website/download.html 2. Commit changes to git: git commit -a -m "Release colord 0.1.11" git tag -s -f -m "Release colord 0.1.11" COLORD_0_1_11 git push --tags git push 3. Generate the tarball: make dist 4. Upload tarball: scp *.tar.* hughsient@annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/colord/releases/ 5. Do post release version bump in configure.ac 6. Commit changes: git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump" git push 7. Sync website with ./upload.sh 8. Send an email to gnome-color-manager-list@gnome.org colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles. See http://colord.hughsie.com/ for more details. Tarballs can be found here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/