Release Checklist

This is WIP. Please update if you think of any missing detail. The target is to include all necessary command line commands (where applicable)

• cleanup Testsuite
• update LIBERTY_VERSION
• create new bootstrap germ code

resources/smarteiffel-germ/make_germ.sh

• create a local branch for the next release

git branch bell

• create a bell branch in the github repo (via web interface?)
• push it to savannah

git checkout bell
git push upstream bell

• remove all tools and libraries which are not sufficiently mature to be included in the release
  • for Bell these are:

cluster smarteiffel/generation/run
smarteiffel/commands/run.e
edc-new, edc
lib/mmi?
effect tool
src/staging
src/lib/net/ezmq
wrappers: cairo, database/postgresql, ewlc, llvm, zmq, xml

• switch ET to use the new branch
  • echo "bell" > ~/branch on ETs account
  • change website/et/html_templates/head.html to make ET output tell people which branch is being tested...
• adapt changelog (in work/packaging/debian.skel/debian/) in bell branch (remove ~dev tag)
• create release candidate

git tag <release_name>-rc1
git push --tags upstream

• on ETs account...

work/packaging/build_debian.sh -rc1
work/packaging/build_debian.sh -rc1 -deploy
ssh et32@et32 "cd $LibertyBase && git fetch origin && git checkout $gitBranch && git merge --ff-only FETCH_HEAD && $LibertyBase/work/packaging/build_debian.sh -rc1"
scp -p et32@et32:Liberty/work/packaging/debs/* ~/Liberty/work/packaging/debs_i386/
reprepro --basedir ~/Liberty/website/apt includedeb rc liberty-eiffel-tools_2016~dev~rc1_i386.deb

• create tarball and put on FTP server

download the tag tarball from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/liberty-eiffel.git
work/strip_tgz.sh bell-rc1.tar.gz
scp bell-rc1.tar.gz ramack@dl.sv.gnu.org:/srv/download/liberty-eiffel/

• collect RC feedback on our mailing list
• adapt changelog (in work/packaging/debian.skel/debian/) in bell branch (fix release version and date, without SNAPSHOT)
• create the final release tag

git tag <release_name>

• create release debian packages

see above, use -release instead of -rc1

• create tarball and put on FTP server

see above for rc

• write announce email
  • to our mailing list
  • on http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/
  • as news entry on savannah
  • adapt changelog (in work/packaging/debian.skel/debian/) in master branch (readd ~dev tagged version)
• switch ET back to use the master branch
  • echo "master" > ~/branch on ETs account
• prepare changelog for the third release
• plan the next release (tickets on savannah)