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1DOING A BARNOWL RELEASE
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3[ ] Send mail to barnowl-dev indicating that a release is happening
4    soon, and soliciting any improvements that developers want
5    included in the release.
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7[ ] Wait a while (a week or so, or more if necessary) for any pending
8    patches to get in.
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10[ ] Prepare the -rc commit
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12 [ ] Run ./scripts/add-changelog NEW-VERSION PREV-TAG..HEAD
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14 [ ] Edit ChangeLog to combine and filter entries
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16 [ ] Edit configure.ac to bump the version to 1.Nrc1
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18[ ] Commit with message 'BarnOwl 1.Nrc1'; don't push until after
19    builds all succeed
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21[ ] Run scripts/do-release with -f (so it won't complain about missing
22    changelog), makes a tarball
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24[ ] Make all the builds
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26 [ ] On build@nelhage.com, run barnowl-build-all TARBALL to build for
27     everything with chroots, doesn't do athena 9 builds. Builds into
28     locker parellel to all other versions.
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30 [ ] Do two athena9 builds: solaris and linux, usually use multics (or
31     sun.dialup) for the solaris build, oliver for linux athena9
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33  [ ] Remember to add gnu; add barnowl
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35  [ ] eval `barnowl-perl-config` to include the perl modules in the
36      barnowl locker
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38  [ ] Run scripts/locker-build TARBALL (barnowl-build-all loops over
39      all of them in schroots). It overrides existing one.
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41[ ] Sanity-check the builds
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43 [ ] Do cursory testing on debathena platforms and both athena9s.
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45 [ ] chroots on nelhage.com also useful
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47[ ] Update symlinks with locker-update script;
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49      locker-update [-b] [-n] VERSION
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51    e.g. locker-update -b -n barnowl-1.6rc1
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53 [ ] -b for the beta
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55 [ ] -n first for dry-run
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57[ ] Push the RC commit
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59[ ] Copy tarball into /mit/barnowl/web_scripts/dist
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61[ ] Send mail (rcs to barnowl-dev@, release to barnowl-users@)
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63[ ] Make an actual release about a week after the RC
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66LOCKER LAYOUT
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68* builds/barnowl-VERSION contains the arch-independent files by
69  version
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71* arch/SYSNAME/bin/barnowl-VERSION is the actual binary
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73* arch/SYSNAME/bin/barnowl is a symlink to ../../common/bin/barnowl
74  (wrapper script runs barnowl.real). .../barnowl.real is a symlink to
75  the latest version.
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77* zcrypt is also installed with a versioned name, but currently
78  barnowl-N will not run zcrypt-N, so we can't change that interface
79  at all.
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