Kexi/Releases/Howto
Maintainer of this section: Jstaniek (talk)
Before creating tarballs
- Update version info in the source code:
- KEXI: in kexi.git/cmake/modules/SetKexiVersionInfo.cmake
- PROJECT_STABLE_VERSION_MAJOR
- PROJECT_STABLE_VERSION_MINOR
- KEXI_ALPHA/KEXI_BETA/KEXI_BETA/KEXI_RC
- KEXI: in kexi.git/CMakeLists.txt
- Maybe KEXI_FRAMEWORKS_MIN_VERSION
- KDb: project() in kdb.git/CMakeLists.txt
- KProperty: project() in kproperty.git/CMakeLists.txt
- KReport: project() and maybe REQUIRED_KPROPERTY_VERSION in kreport.git/CMakeLists.txt
- KEXI: in kexi.git/cmake/modules/SetKexiVersionInfo.cmake
- Test Windows installer
Creating tarballs
- TODO: explain 'releaseme'
- Upload *.tar.xz and *.tar.xz.sig files to ftp://upload.kde.org/incoming/
- Submit a KDE Sysadmin ticket for the download.kde.org department at https://sysadmin.kde.org/tickets/
- Title: Please publish KEXI and KEXI frameworks source files x.y.z
- Description:
Dear Admin, Please publish these tarballs and sig files from ftp://depot.kde.org/incoming/, thanks! (Beta, RC: TARGET=unstable) (Final: TARGET=stable) kexi* -> $TARGET/kexi/src/ kdb* -> $TARGET/kdb/src/ kreport* -> $TARGET/kreport/src/ kproperty* -> $TARGET/kproperty/src/ Sums: {sha256sum.txt}
Information updates
- Set version tag (git tag -a) in all git repos to the commit the tarballs are made from
- Push tags (git push --tags origin) to all git repos
- Add version for all KEXI and Framework bug.kde.org products: KDb, KProperty, KReport, KEXI
- Collect changelog items (use git-changelog tool: TODO share it), use the template.
- Extract release highlight and attach screenshots
- Write announcement
- Ask for proofreading at [email protected]
- See what packages will be ready at release day (*Linux, Windows, OSX), push people to have them ready
- Major release:
- Create tour
- Update stable major version at community.kde.org for Kexi and KexiLibs
- Update unstable major version at community.kde.org for Kexi and KexiLibs
- Update checkboxes and dates at Kexi/Schedules.
- Update version in craft-blueprints-kde.git/extragear: kexi/kexi.py, kdb/kdb.py, kproperty/kproperty.py, kreport/kreport.py
- Update stable_kf5 in repo-metadata.git/projects/calligra/kexi/i18n.json, projects/extragear/libs/kdb/i18n.json, projects/extragear/libs/property/i18n.json, projects/extragear/libs/kreport/i18n.json
- TODO: Update info on http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi/Download
- Update stable release version at community.kde.org for Kexi and KexiLibs
- Update unstable stage at community.kde.org for Kexi and KexiLibs
- Update info in channel topic of #kexi
- Update kexi-project.org
- Add link to the KEXI release announcement page Kexi/Releases
- Update Kexi version on the front page
- Publish news on Kexi forum: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=220
- Publish news on https://twitter.com/kexi_project, https://www.facebook.com/kexi.project
- Publish news on Bountysource - template
- Email [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Stable versions:
- Publish news on http://www.linkedin.com KEXI group
- Update version on KDE-Apps.org
- Update version at http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Kexi
- Update version at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexi and http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexi