notmuch/RELEASING
Carl Worth e1bc5fc9c7 RELEASING: Update instructions for new version technique.
We pass this in on the "make release" command-line rather than editing
the Makefile.
2010-04-09 19:12:36 -07:00

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Here are the steps to follow to create a new notmuch release:
1) Verify that what you want to release is committed. The release
process will release the code from the current HEAD commit.
2) Verify that the NEWS file is up to date.
Read through the entry at the top of the NEWS file and see if
you are aware of any major features recently added that are
not mentioned there. If so, pleas add them, (and ask the
authors of the commits to update NEWS in the future).
3) Verify that the notmuch test suite passes.
Currently this is by running:
./test/notmuch-test
And manually verifying that every test says PASS. We plan to
fix this to automatically check the results and even to
automatically run the test suite as part of a Makefile target
described below.
4) Increment the libnotmuch library version in lib/Makefile.local
See the instructions there for how to increment it. The
command below can be useful for inspecting header-file changes
since the last release X.Y.Z:
git diff X.Y.Z..HEAD -- lib/notmuch.h
Note: We currently don't plan to increment
LIBNOTMUCH_VERSION_MAJOR beyond 1, so if there *are*
incompatible changes to the library interface, then
stop. Don't release. Figure out the plan on the notmuch
mailing list.
Commit this change.
5) Run "make VERSION=X.Y release" which will perform the following steps:
For the X.Y version, we'll generally just increment Y. But for
major milestones of usability we're increment X as well.
* Check that the notmuch version consists of only two components
* Check that no release exists with the current version
* Verify that "make dist" completes successfully
* Generate the final tar file
* Generate an sha1sum file
* Sign the sha1sum using your GPG setup (asks for your GPG password)
* scp the three files to appear on http://notmuchmail.org/releases
* Place local copies of the three files in the releases directory
* Create a LATEST-notmuch-version file (after deleting any old one)
* Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form X.Y.Z, and sign
the tag with your GPG key (asks for your GPG password, and you
may need to set GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to match
your public-key's setting or this fails.)
* Push that tag
* Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
6) Increment the notmuch version by adding a .1 micro number, commit, and push.
7) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
Use the text provided from "make release" above, (if for some
reason you lose this message, "make release-message" prints
it again for you.