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How to do a GTK release?
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## Before we begin
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Make sure you have suitable versions of Meson and Ninja.
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Also make sure you have the following packages installed with all their
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dependencies:
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* gtk-doc
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* docbook-utils
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Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
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Make sure that gtk-doc is the latest released version.
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## Release check list
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0. Save all your work, then move to the branch from which you want
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to release. Go back to a pristine working directory. With Git,
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this works:
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```sh
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$ git clean -dfx
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```
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1. Build using the common sequence:
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```sh
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$ meson _build .
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$ ninja -C _build
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```
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2. Update NEWS based on the content of git log; follow the format of prior
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entries. This includes finding noteworthy new features, collecting
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summaries for all the fixed bugs that are referenced and collecting all
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updated translations. Also collect the names of all contributors that
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are mentioned. We don't discriminate between bug reporters, patch
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writers, committers, etc. Anybody who is mentioned in the commit log
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gets a credit, but only real names, not email addresses or nicknames.
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3. Update the pot files and commit the changes:
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```sh
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$ ninja -C _build gtk40-pot
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$ ninja -C _build gtk40-properties-pot
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```
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4. If this is a major, stable, release, verify that the release notes
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in the API reference contain the relevant items.
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5. Verify that the version in `meson.build` has been bumped after the last
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release. **Note**: this is critical, a slip-up here will cause the soname
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to change.
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6. Make sure that `meson test` is happy (`ninja dist` will also run the test
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suite, but it's better to catch issues before committing and tagging
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the release). Typical problems to expect here (depending on whether this
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is a devel snapshot or a stable release):
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* forgotten source files
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* new symbols missing the `GDK_AVAILABLE_IN_` annotation
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* wrong introspection annotations
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* missing documentation
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7. If this is a devel release, make sure that the docs for new symbols are
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in good shape. Look at the -unused.txt files and add stuff found there
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to the corresponding `-sections.txt` file. Look at the `-undocumented.txt`
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files and see if there is anything in there that should be documented.
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If it is, this may be due to typos in the doc comments in the source.
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Make sure that all new symbols have proper Since: tags, and that there
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is an index in the main `-docs.xml` for the next stable version.
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8. Run `ninja dist` to generate the tarball.
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9. Fix broken stuff found by 8), commit changes, repeat.
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10. Once `dist` succeeds, verify that the tree is clean and all the changes
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needed to make the release have been committed: `git diff` should come
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up empty. The last commit must be the commit that bumps up the version
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of the release in the `meson.build` file. Use `git rebase` if you had to
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add more commits after the version bump and `dist` successfully passing.
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If you change the history, remember to rebuild the tarball.
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11. Now you've got the tarball. Check that the tarball size looks reasonable
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compared to previous releases. If the size goes down a lot, likely the
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docs went missing for some reason. Or the translations. If the size goes
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up by a lot, something else may be wrong.
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12. Tag the release. The git command for doing that looks like:
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```sh
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$ git tag -m "GTK 4.2.0" 4.2.0
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```
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13. Bump the version number in `meson.build` and commit the change.
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14. Push the changes upstream, and push the tag as well. The git command for
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doing that is:
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```sh
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$ git push origin
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$ git push origin 4.2.0
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```
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15. Upload the tarball to `master.gnome.org` and run `ftpadmin install` to
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transfer it to `download.gnome.org`. If you don't have an account on
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`master.gnome.org`, find someone who can do it for you. The command for
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this looks like:
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```sh
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$ scp gtk-4.2.0.tar.xz matthiasc@master.gnome.org:
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$ ssh matthiasc@master.gnome.org ftpadmin install gtk-4.2.0.tar.xz
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```
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16. Go to the gnome-announce list archives, find the last announce message,
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create a new message in the same form, replacing version numbers,
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commentary at the top about "what this release is about" and the
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summary of changes.
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