Lazarus 0.9.30 release plan
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Revision as of 12:52, 18 November 2010 by Vincent (talk | contribs) (→Create snapshots for new branch)
Release preparation
- Gather list of todos from developers
Add new LazTarget to the mantis for so we can postpone issue one release. Postponed issues can be set to 0.99, 1.0 or 1.2.
Creating branch for release
- Create fixes_0_9_30 branch (Vincent)
- Set version number 0.9.31 in trunk (Vincent)
- lazarus/ide/version.inc
- lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
- lazarus/debian/changelog
- lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist
- open lazarus/lazarus.lpi in the IDE and change the version numbers in the project options dialog
Create snapshots for new branch
- source (Vincent)
- win32 (Vincent)
- win64 (Vincent)
- linux i386 rpm (Vincent)
- linux x86_64 rpm (Vincent)
- linux i386 deb (Vincent)
- linux x86_64 deb (Vincent)
- Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)
- Mac OS X i386 (Vincent)
- Add deb snaphots to Ubuntu testing repo (Vincent)
Before tagging
- 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 0.9.30.
Tagging release
- Set version to 0.9.30 in fixes_0_9_30 branch (Vincent)
- lazarus/ide/version.inc
- lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
- lazarus/debian/changelog
- lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist
- open lazarus/lazarus.lpi in the IDE and change the version numbers in the project options dialog
- Tag fixes_0_9_30 branch to tags/release_0_9_30 (Vincent)
- Set version to 0.9.30.1 in fixes_0_9_30 branch (Vincent)
Building release
- source (Vincent)
- html docs (Vincent)
- chm docs (Vincent)
- win32 (Vincent)
- win32 for arm-wince (Vincent)
- win64 (Vincent)
- linux source rpm (Joost)
- linux i386 rpm (Joost)
- crosswin32 rpm (Mattias)
- linux x86_64 rpm (Joost)
- linux i386 deb (Vincent)
- crosswin32 deb (Mattias)
- linux x86_64 deb (Vincent)
- Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)
- Mac OS X i386 (Vincent)
- Adding debs to ubuntu repo (Vincent)
Announcements
- Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
- List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.30 release notes (Mattias)
- Mailing lists (Mattias)
- News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org (Vincent)
- Sourceforge (Vincent)
- Freshmeat (Vincent)
- Change IRC topic (Marc)
- New versions in Mantis (Vincent)
After release
- Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version (Vincent)
Further
- Relax (all)
- Plan next release