Lazarus 0.9.30 release plan

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)
• Add debs to ubuntu repo (Vincent)

Announcements

• Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
  • Installing Lazarus
• 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