Release Steps

From Geoqo

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There is now a makerelease script in dist/makerelease.xml. That is now the authoritative source on what should be done.

To test what it will do:

 makerelease -n -c dist/makerelease.xml

To create a release:

 makerelease -c dist/makerelease.xml

To watch it process each step and prompt before doing each one:

 makerelease -i -c dist/makerelease.xml

Steps

Steps used to release a new version. You know, in case I fall off a cliff while geocaching:

1. Setup:
   1. Change the Template:VER wiki page to the new version number
   2. change version numbers in the files
      • dist/version 0.98
   3. run dist/testcode to check for syntax issues
   4. ensure makedocs and geodb/html/Makefile contains proper list of module names
      • perl makedocs will update the geoqo docs and print any potentially missing modules
      • New plugins may need to be added to the lists
   5. Run ./makedocs
   6. Run "make", "make coversclean" and "make covers" in geoqo/html/
      • checkout requires geoqo source to be in ../geoqo
   7. Run "make test" and check for errors
   8. Update the NEWS file
2. Release:
   1. svn copy https://geoqo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geoqo/trunk/geoqo https://geoqo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geoqo/tags/geoqo-0.98
   2. svn export https://geoqo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geoqo/tags/geoqo-0.98 geoqo-0.98
   3. tar czf geoqo-0.98.tar.gz geoqo-0.98
   4. zip -r geoqo-0.98.zip geoqo-0.98
   5. ncftpput upload.sourceforge.net incoming geoqo-0.98.zip geoqo-0.98.tar.gz
   6. add release files using admin interface
3. Advertise:
   1. send note to geoqo-users AT AT lists.sourceforge.net
   2. sourceforge news system
      • web site auto updated
   3. freshmeat.net
   4. topic on #geoqo