ReleaseProcess

Steps to release

Here's the list of steps to do a release.

Technical

Pre-release checklist:

1. Update AUTHORS file
   1. check git commits
   2. ask on mailing list
   3. other ways?
2. Update documentation
   1. update README
   2. update docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst
   3. update install guide
   4. other things?

Release checklist:

1. Verify with others on IRC that we're good to go.
2. Do a git fetch and make sure you have the latest code.
3. Do a ./devtools/update_translations.sh and make sure you have the latest translations.
4. Do a ./devtools/maketarball.sh -dr HEAD to make sure building the docs and tarball works. If any errors, proceed no further!
5. Do a git clean -fdx to wipe all non-repository files out (THIS DELETES EVERYTHING), go through hacking howto to reinstall.
6. Run the unit tests: ./runtests.sh If any tests fail, proceed no further!
7. Update version numbers in mediaboglin/_version.py
8. Tag: git tag -a vX.Y.Z (consider --sign to create a signed tag).
9. Push the tag to gitorious: git push origin vX.Y.Z
10. Build the tarfile. ./devtools/maketarball.sh -r vX.Y.Z (Note, you may have to do this in a virtualenv... source bin/activate before running)
11. Push the tarball to the web-site: add tarball to site/static/download/ directory in mediagoblin-website repository and then push the site live
12. Update on PYPI - ./bin/python setup.py register sdist bdist_egg upload

Promotional

1. Blog post
   • Chris sends Deb technical highlights
   • Deb drafts post
   • Chris adds screenshots/links
   • We send the post to press contacts
   • Two days later we publish everywhere (see below)

Places we Update

1. • on identi.ca
   • on diaspora
   • on Facebook (Deb)
   • on Twitter
   • our mailing list, encouraging people to fave, like, repost, etc.
   • reddit
   • digg
   • the GNU mailing list, aka info-gnu@gnu.org "plain text is greatly preferred" omit screenshots or replace with links.

Press Contacts

1. • write to Zonker
   • LinuxJournal
   • LWN
   • OpenSource.com
   • see if the FSF will blog or announce

Post release process

1. change version number to the next one + -dev in files listed above
2. add new milestone to Trac