colord Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for colord in the same format as usual.

git shortlog COLORD_0_1_27.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 0.1.28
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2013-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

Write release date to doc/website/download.html

Update translations:

tx push --source
tx pull --all
git add po/*.po

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THESE ARE CORRECT
export release_version="0.1.28"
export release_tag="COLORD_0_1_28"

git commit -a -m "Release colord ${release_version}"
git tag -s -f -m "Release colord ${release_version}" "${release_tag}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

make dist

3a. Generate the additon verification metadata

sha1sum colord-${release_version}.tar.xz > colord-${release_version}.tar.xz.sha1
gpg -b -a colord-${release_version}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp colord-${release_version}.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
tx push --source

7. Sync website with ./upload.sh

8. Send an email to colord@lists.freedesktop.org

colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for more details.

Tarballs can be found here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/