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** Martin: No blocking items.
 
** Martin: No blocking items.
 
** Paul and Zeljan: clDefault, Carbon doesn't work correctly yet
 
** Paul and Zeljan: clDefault, Carbon doesn't work correctly yet
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** Vincent: investigate what gdb version to distribute for win64
 
* <s>Add new LazTarget to the mantis for so we can postpone issue one release</s>. Postponed issues can be set to 0.99, 1.0 or 1.2.
 
* <s>Add new LazTarget to the mantis for so we can postpone issue one release</s>. Postponed issues can be set to 0.99, 1.0 or 1.2.
  
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* Mac OS X i386 (Vincent)
 
* Mac OS X i386 (Vincent)
 
* Add deb snaphots to Ubuntu testing repo (Vincent)
 
* Add deb snaphots to Ubuntu testing repo (Vincent)
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=== Merge revisions from trunk ===
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The following revisions need to be merged from trunk to the fixes_0_9_30 branch.
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=== Before tagging ===
 
=== Before tagging ===

Revision as of 09:49, 23 December 2010

Release preparation

  • Gather list of todos from developers
    • Martin: No blocking items.
    • Paul and Zeljan: clDefault, Carbon doesn't work correctly yet
    • Vincent: investigate what gdb version to distribute for win64
  • 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.

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

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)

Merge revisions from trunk

The following revisions need to be merged from trunk to the fixes_0_9_30 branch.

Before tagging

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

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)
  • Add 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