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93 lines
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How to do a GTK+ release?
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Make sure you have suitable versions of autoconf and libtool.
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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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0) Blow away your gtk+ directory, check a new version out
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1) autogen and build it, make sure to enable docs by specifying
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--enable-gtk-doc --enable-man
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2) Update NEWS based on the various ChangeLog files; follow the format
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of prior entries. This includes finding noteworthy new features,
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collecting summaries for all the fixed bugs that are referenced
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and collecting all updated translations.
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Also collect the names of all contributors that are mentioned.
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We don't discriminate between bug reporters, patch writers,
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committers, etc. Anybody who is mentioned in ChangeLog gets
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credits, but only real names, not email addresses or nicknames.
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3) Verify that the version in configure.in has been bumped after the last
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release. (Note that this is critical, a slip-up here will cause the
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soname to change).
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4) Make sure that make check is happy (If you don't do it here, make distcheck
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will also catch it, but it is kind of disheartening to see make distcheck
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fail due to an extraneous symbol after watching it build the docs for an
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hour...).
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Typical problems to expect here (depending on whether this is a devel
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snapshot or a stable release):
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* forgotten source files
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* new symbols missing from .symbols files
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* symbols that are exported by should be private (static or _-prefixed)
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5) If this is a devel release, make sure that the docs for new symbols
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are in good shape. Look at the -unused.txt files and add stuff found
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there to the corresponding -sections.txt file. Make sure that all
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new symbols have proper Since: tags, and that there is an index
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in the main -docs.sgml for the next stable version.
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6) Add === Released 2.x.y === at the top of all ChangeLog files
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7) make distcheck
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8) Fix broken stuff found by 7), repeat
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9) svn commit; you'll have a bunch of po file changes, ChangeLog updates,
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and maybe some doc changes too
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10) If 7) fails because someone else committed inbetween, curse, svn up,
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fix conflicts and go to 7)
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11) Now you've got the tarball. Check that the tarball size looks
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reasonable compared to previous releases. If the size goes down
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a lot, likely the docs went missing for some reason. If the size
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goes up by a lot, something else may be wrong.
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11) Tag the release. The command for doing that looks like
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svn cp svn+ssh://matthiasc@svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/branches/gtk-2-12 \
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svn+ssh://matthiasc@svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/tags/GTK_2_12_10
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12) Bump the version number in configure.in and commit this change
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with a ChangeLog entry
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13) Upload the tarball to master.gnome.org and run install-module to transfer
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it to download.gnome.org. If you don't have an account on master.gnome.org,
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find someone who can do it for you. The command for this looks like
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scp gtk+-2.12.10.tar.gz matthiasc@master.gnome.org:
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ssh matthiasc@master.gnome.org
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install-module gtk+-2.12.10.tar.gz
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14) Get the bz2 tarball and the .md5sum files back from master.gnome.org
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You can probably also create it locally, but I've experienced md5
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mismatches when doing so
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15) 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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16) Send it to gnome-announce-list, gtk-list, gtk-app-devel-list and
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gtk-devel-list. Set reply-to to gnome-hackers.
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17) Add a link to the release announcement to www.gtk.org which lives
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in the gtk-web cvs module.
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