Steps for an official release

Overview

Steps detailing a release (4.0 is given as an example).

3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions

• Also provide links for downloading rel-400 daily builds/packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers

6. Release rel-400 branch by tagging in git repo with v4_0_0.

• Things to remember before tagging the release.

• Remove dev (make it blank) from the version.php file
• Ensure the debug language global in locale in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0
• Prepare the ubuntu/debian package

• Ensure following files are updated:

• control

• Update Version
• Update Installed-Size (just estimate it, doesn't need to be accurate)
• Add new package dependencies (if pertinent, for example in 4.0.0, added php5-curl and php5-mcrypt)

• README.Debian

• Change the dates at bottom of file to release date (use date -R to get correctly formatted date).

• changelog.Debian

• Add entry for new version:

openemr (4.0.0-1) stable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

 -- Brady Miller <brady@sparmy.com>  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:46:08 -0700

• copyright

• Add current date near top (use date -R to get correctly formatted date)
• Modify the copyright years (two of them), if needed

• preinst

• Update the algorithm to upgrade the previous version correctly

7.Build the tar.gz, zip and deb packages from v4_0_0.

Script that automates the below release builds outlined below is here: http://gist.github.com/884734

Download release from sourceforge git repository

git clone git://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openemr/openemr
git checkout origin/v4_0_0
rm -fr openemr/.git

Set permissions for tarball and zip

cp -r openemr/ openemr-4.0.0/
chmod -R u+w openemr-4.0.0
chmod -R a+w openemr-4.0.0/sites/default/documents openemr-4.0.0/sites/default/edi openemr-4.0.0/sites/default/era
chmod a+w openemr-4.0.0/sites/default/sqlconf.php
chmod a+w openemr-4.0.0/gacl/admin/templates_c
chmod a+w openemr-4.0.0/sites/default/config.php
chmod -R a+w openemr-4.0.0/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/cache
chmod -R a+w openemr-4.0.0/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/compiled

Build tarball (Linux)

tar zcpf openemr-4.0.0.tar.gz openemr-4.0.0

Build zip (Windows)

zip -r openemr-4.0.0.zip openemr-4.0.0

Build deb (Debian/Ubuntu package)

mkdir -p debian/DEBIAN
mkdir -p debian/usr/share/applications
mkdir -p debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/
mkdir -p debian/usr/share/man/man8
mkdir -p debian/var/www
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/control debian/DEBIAN/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/preinst debian/DEBIAN/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/postinst debian/DEBIAN/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/prerm debian/DEBIAN/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/postrm debian/DEBIAN/
chmod +x debian/DEBIAN/preinst
chmod +x debian/DEBIAN/postinst
chmod +x debian/DEBIAN/prerm
chmod +x debian/DEBIAN/postrm
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/openemr.desktop debian/usr/share/applications/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/changelog.Debian debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/
gzip --best debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/changelog.Debian
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/copyright debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/README.Debian debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/
cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/openemr.8 debian/usr/share/man/man8/
gzip --best debian/usr/share/man/man8/openemr.8
cp -r openemr/ debian/var/www/openemr/
fakeroot dpkg-deb --build debian
mv debian.deb openemr_4.0.0-1_all.deb
lintian openemr_4.0.0-1_all.deb

8. Release packages on sourceforge

• Upload via Project Admin
• Upload release and a release notes file
• Set file properties appropriately