colord Release Notes

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

git shortlog COLORD_1_2_4.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 1.2.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2014-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

Write release date to doc/website/download.html

Update translations:

cd po
make colord.pot
INTLTOOL_EXTRACT="/usr/bin/intltool-extract" XGETTEXT="/usr/bin/xgettext --no-location" srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update --gettext-package colord --pot
tx push --source
tx pull --all
git add *.po

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THESE ARE CORRECT
export release_version="1.2.5"
export release_tag="COLORD_1_2_5"

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 distcheck

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

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/