[Qgis-developer] Documenting the release process

[Otto Dassau]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:51:02 -0300
"Tim Sutton" <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have started a new area on the wiki at the bottom of the developers corner:
> 
>
http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DevelopersCorner#head-6ad36d47fc9198cd4dba7c2af8f7ee858ba406b8
> 
> 
> The idea is to document the whole process of getting a release out -
> covering what needs to be done prior to tagging the source, building
> source and binary packages, press notifications etc. I'm looking for
> help and contributions to get this section of the wiki written. There
> are a few sections:
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/PreReleaseChecklist
> =======================================
> This document will be a 'things to be done before release' checklist.
> I am hoping that you will contribute your thoughts (directly to the
> wiki please). I am looking for timings too so that we can e.g. get the
> level of detail like this:
> 
>  1.) 1 week before release notify translators for final updates
>  2.) 1 day before release email developers list with notice of intention to
tag
> 
> etc. The above are bogus examples but hopefully give you the idea of
> what I am looking for.  We need to document any files that need to be
> modified with e.g. version number updates, changelogs etc.
> 
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/SourcePackagePreparation
> ===========================================
> 
> This page will contain the steps needed to do source code release
> including naming convention for the source code release and the
> commands needed to generate the release. I am looking at using cpack
> extension to cmake for this which I will try to implement today.
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BinaryPackagePreparationForWindows
> =====================================================
> 
> This page will document the steps needed to produce a nsis installer
> package on windows (I believe this can be done with cmakes cpack too).
> I will fill this in.
> 
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BinaryPackagePreparationForLinux
> ==================================================
> 
> I will document the bitrock installer bundle creation here. I am
> looking for contributors to describe the exact steps to be followed
> for creating rpms (various distros), debs (various distros) and
> ebuilds etc. Of course we have the problem that debian stuff (and I
> assume rpm stuff too) is all auto* centric so we need to somehow work
> out  how to get backages build using cmake. Anyone who is building
> rpms/ debs / ebuilds / ports etc please document the steps you follow
> here. Creating a new distro specific page for the purpose and just
> adding the link will also be fine.
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BinaryPackagePreparationForMac
> ================================================
> 
> I am hoping Tom and William can document the magic you do when you
> create the OSX binaries. I think Tom has described the process before
> on this list by I cant locate it in my archive.
> 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DocumentationReleasePreparation
> =================================================
> 
> Otto and Stephan can you document what needs to be done to get the
> documentation released? Also can you add any documentation related
> dependencies to the release checklist page?

yes

> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/PostReleaseChecklist
> =======================================
> 
> In this page I would like to list all the web sites etc where we
> promote the releases of QGIS
> 
> 
> It will be really great to have all this info in a readily accessible
> format and I thank everyone in advance who can contribute to these
> documents.
> 


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