Lazarus 0.9.26 release plan
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Revision as of 21:43, 26 September 2008 by Vincent (talk | contribs) (→Building and uploading release)
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.inclazarus/lcl/lclversion.paslazarus/debian/changelog
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)
- win32 based on qt (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)
- Plan next release