Steps for an official release
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Revision as of 02:08, 20 March 2011 by Bradymiller (talk | contribs)
- 1. Create a rel-??? branch from master in the git repo.
- 2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-??? branch and updates daily.
- 3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions.
- Also provide links for downloading rel-??? packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers.
- 3. Finalize the translations in the rel-??? branch.
- 4. Bug fix and finalize the rel-??? branch.
- 5. Create a list of new features in the rel-??? branch (since the last official release).
- 6. Release rel-??? branch by tagging in git repo with v?_?_?.
- 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
- Build the zip and tar.gz packages from v_?_?_? and release packages on sourceforge.
- 7. Build and release the Ubuntu package.
- Ensure new dependencies are added (such as php5-mcrypt)
- 8. Build and release the Appliance.
- 9. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.
