Release Process

From gPodderWiki

This page lists all tasks that have to be done for a gPodder release.

Contents 1 Testing and release management in the repository 2 Release notes/website work 3 Release notifications 4 Debian package 5 MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan package

[edit] Testing and release management in the repository

All tests carried out here should be following the Functional tests instructions.

• Run make messages and then do German translation
• Test if gPodder works for normal and first-time use cases:

   # ... test if basic usage works with current data ...
   mv ~/gPodder ~/gPodder.saved
   # ... test gPodder (subscribing + downloading) ...
   rm -rf ~/gPodder
   mv ~/gPodder.saved ~/gPodder

• Run automatic sanity checks and unittests:

   make releasetest

• If any dependencies have changed, update README file and state them there
• Update src/gpodder/__init__.py with new version number, release date and release name

• Update data/credits.txt from the Git history

   git log gpodder-x.y.(z-1).. | git shortlog | grep -v '^[ ]' | sort | uniq | sed -e 's/\(.*\) ([^)]*):/\1/g'

• Update translations and manpage:

   make messages
   make manpage

• Make sure manpages have the correct version in their headings:

   man data/man/gpodder.1
   man data/man/gpo.1

• Make the release in the repository:

   git status
   git add file1 [...]
   git commit
   git push
   git tag gpodder-x.y.z
   git push --tags

• Remove release branch if necessary:

   git branch -d gpodder-x.y.z

[edit] Release notes/website work

• Re-generate ChangeLog for inclusion into tarball:

   git checkout gpodder-x.y.z
   git log gpodder-a.b.c..gpodder-x.y.z >ChangeLog

• Create the release source tarball:

   make release
   ls -l dist/

• Upload to http://gpodder.org/src/
• Write a post on http://blog.gpodder.org/
• Update gPodder's downloads page
• Copy release notes from website and post to the Mailing list
• Update FAQs in the Wiki (if answers changed because of the release)
• Update bugtracker metadata
  • Add new version
  • Add new milestone

[edit] Release notifications

• Update entry on freshmeat.net
• Update entry on podcatchermatrix.org

[edit] Debian package

• Notify Debian packager that a new release is available: tmancill on debian.org

[edit] MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan package

git checkout harmattan
git merge gpodder-x.y.z
dch -i
git ci -a -m "gPodder x.y.z for Harmattan"
git tag harmattan/gpodder_x.y.z
git push
git push --tags
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -S -sa -I.git -i.git
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

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