Changeset f536399

Timestamp:

May 8, 2010, 12:25:55 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>

Branches:

master, release-1.10, release-1.7, release-1.8, release-1.9

Children:

5f08dbe

Parents:

c62c755

git-author:

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu> (05/08/10 12:21:08)

git-committer:

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu> (05/08/10 12:25:55)

Message:

Update releasing-barnowl for the actual release.

File:

• doc/releasing-barnowl.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

doc/releasing-barnowl.txt

@@ -22 +22 @@
     changelog), makes a tarball
 
-[ ] Make all the builds
- 
- [ ] On build@nelhage.com, run barnowl-build-all TARBALL to build for
-     everything with chroots, doesn't do athena 9 builds. Builds into
-     locker parellel to all other versions.
+[ ] Do a locker build (See DOING A LOCKER BUILD)
 
- [ ] Do two athena9 builds: solaris and linux, usually use multics (or
-     sun.dialup) for the solaris build, oliver for linux athena9
+[ ] Update configure.ac on master to bump the version to 1.(N+1)dev
 
-  [ ] Remember to add gnu; add barnowl
+[ ] Push git git:
+ [ ] The RC commit
+ [ ] The configure.ac change on master
+ [ ] A release-1.N branch pointing at the RC commit
 
-  [ ] eval `barnowl-perl-config` to include the perl modules in the
-      barnowl locker
+[ ] Copy tarball into /mit/barnowl/web_scripts/dist
 
-  [ ] Run scripts/locker-build TARBALL (barnowl-build-all loops over
-      all of them in schroots). It overrides existing one.
+[ ] Send mail announcing the RC to barnowl-dev@mit.edu
+
+[ ] Wait 1-2 weeks, collect any bug reports
+
+[ ] Fix any reported bugs on master
+
+[ ] Cherry-pick/backport appropriate fixes from master onto
+    release-1.N
+
+[ ] If there have been many or large bugfixes, repeat the process for
+    barnowl 1.Nrc2
+
+DOING THE ACTUAL RELEASE
+
+[ ] Update the changelog and configure.ac for barnowl 1.N
+
+[ ] run ./scripts/do-release
+
+[ ] Do the locker build
+
+[ ] Push the release tag
+
+[ ] Write up release notes
+    (I usually use the previous release's email as a template)
+
+[ ] Update the website
+
+ [ ] Add the line that `do-release` printed to the changelog on the home page
+
+ [ ] Add your release notes as /release-notes/1.N
+
+[ ] Send the release notes to barnowl-users@mit.edu
+
+
+DOING A LOCKER BUILD
+
+[ ] Copy the tarball to build@nelhage.com
+
+[ ] ssh to build@nelhage.com and kinit
+
+[ ] On build@nelhage.com, run barnowl-build-all TARBALL.
+    This script does builds for all Debathena platforms using chroots
+    on nelhage.com, and ssh's to Athena 9 machines to do the two
+    Athena 9 builds.
 
 [ ] Sanity-check the builds
@@ -46 +85 @@
 
 [ ] Update symlinks with locker-update script;
+      locker-update [-b] [-n] VERSION
+    e.g. locker-update -b -n barnowl-1.6rc1
 
-      locker-update [-b] [-n] VERSION
+ [ ] Use -b to update the barnowl-beta name
 
-    e.g. locker-update -b -n barnowl-1.6rc1
- 
- [ ] -b for the beta
-
- [ ] -n first for dry-run
-
-[ ] Push the RC commit
-
-[ ] Copy tarball into /mit/barnowl/web_scripts/dist
-
-[ ] Send mail (rcs to barnowl-dev@, release to barnowl-users@)
-
-[ ] Make an actual release about a week after the RC
+ [ ] Use -n first for dry-run