Lazarus 0.9.26 release plan
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Release preparation
Gather list of todos from developers (Vincent)Add LazTarget (0.9.28) to the mantis, so we can postpone issues one release.
Before tagging
Informally announce (IRC, mailing list) a pending release (+/- week before actual release), so that people can test for regressions (Vincent)Blog posts (Vincent)Email to lazarus list (Paul)
Bugs to be fixed
Things that need to be fixed before tagging:
A list of bugs with target 0.9.26.
Tagging release
- Set release version in trunk (Vincent)
- lazarus/ide/version.inc
- lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
- Tag trunk to tags/release_0_9_26 (Vincent)
- Increase version number in trunk to 0_9_27(Vincent)
Building and uploading release
- source (Mattias)
- win32 (Vincent)
- win64 (Vincent)
- linux source rpm (Mattias)
- linux i386 rpm (Mattias)
- linux i386 deb (Mattias)
- linux x86_64 rpm (Mattias)
- linux x86_64 deb (Mattias)
- Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)
- Mac OS X i386( Vincent)
- Ubuntu repo i386 (Vincent)
- Ubuntu repo x85_64 (Vincent)
Announcements
- List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.26 release notes (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 (Vincent)
After release
- Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version (Vincent)
- Create fixes branch (Vincent)
Further
Relax (all)Work hardly on next release- Plan next release