From Lazarus-ccr

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers (Vincent)
• Add LazTarget (0.9.26) to the mantis, so we can postpone issues one release.

Before tagging

• Bitmap rewrite (Marc)
• Imagelist rewrite (Marc)
• Informally announce (IRC, mailing list) a pending release (+/- week before actual release), so that people can test for regressions (Vincent)

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

• A list of bugs with target 0.9.24.

Tagging release

• Set release version in trunk (Vincent)
• Tag trunk to tags/release_0_9_24 (Vincent)
• Increase version number in trunk to 0_9_25(Vincent)

Building release

• source (Mattias)
• win32 (Vincent)
• win64 (Vincent)
• linux source rpm (Mattias)
• linux i386 rpm (Mattias)
• linux i386 deb (Mattias)
• linux x86_64 rpm (Vincent)
• linux x86_64 deb (Vincent)
• Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)
• Mac OS X i386( Vincent)

Announcements

• List of changes (Mattias)
• Mailing lists (Mattias)
• News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org (Vincent)
• Sourceforge (Mattias)
• Freshmeat (Vincent)
• Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
• Change IRC topic (Marc)
• New versions in Mantis (Marc)

After release

• Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version (Vincent)

Further

• Relax (all)
• Plan next release