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@@ -71,11 +71,16 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following: - update the file NEWS based on the ChangeLog + - update the AUTHORS file based on the ChangeLog + - add a ChangeLog entry containing the version number you're releasing ("Released 0.3" or something) so people can see which changes were before and after a given release. + - The version number should have major.minor.micro even + if micro is 0, i.e. "1.0.0" and "1.2.0" not "1.0"/"1.2" + - "make distcheck" (DO NOT just "make dist" - pass the check!) - if make distcheck fails, fix it. @@ -90,7 +95,8 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following: - bump the version number up in configure.in, and commit it. Make sure you do this *after* tagging the previous - release! + release! The idea is that CVS has a newer version number + than anything released. - scp your tarball to freedesktop.org server and copy it to /srv/dbus.freedesktop.org/www/releases. This should @@ -109,6 +115,33 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following: - post to dbus@lists.freedesktop.org announcing the release. +After making a ".0" stable release +=== + +After releasing, when you increment the version number in CVS, also +move the ChangeLog to ChangeLog.pre-X-Y where X-Y is what you just +released, e.g. ChangeLog.pre-1-0. Then create and cvs add a new empty +ChangeLog. The last entry in ChangeLog.pre-1-0 should be the one about +"Released 1.0". + +Add ChangeLog.pre-X-Y to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am. + +We create a branch for each stable release; sometimes the branch is +not done immediately, instead it's possible to wait until someone has +a not-suitable-for-stable change they want to make and then branch to +allow committing that change. + +The branch name should be DBUS_X_Y_BRANCH which is a branch that has +releases versioned X.Y.Z + +To branch, tag HEAD with DBUS_X_Y_BRANCHPOINT: + cvs tag DBUS_X_Y_BRANCHPOINT +then create the branch from that tag: + cvs rtag -b -r DBUS_X_Y_BRANCHPOINT DBUS_X_Y_BRANCH dbus + +Note that DBUS_X_Y_BRANCHPOINT may not tag the same revision as the +DBUS_X_Y_Z release, since we may not branch immediately. + Environment variables === @@ -195,6 +228,7 @@ rules are: The reviewer group that can approve patches: Havoc Pennington, Michael Meeks, Alex Larsson, Zack Rusin, Joe Shaw, Mikael Hallendal, Richard -Hult, Owen Fraser-Green, Olivier Andrieu, Colin Walters. +Hult, Owen Fraser-Green, Olivier Andrieu, Colin Walters, Thiago +Macieira, John Palmieri. |