Um, so expanding upon the existing ones several of us wrote last year? http://globulation2.org/wiki/Releasing_a_new_version http://globulation2.org/wiki/Uploading_to_Savannah http://globulation2.org/wiki/Obtaining_the_Release_Candidate
Regards Kieran --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kieran Pilkington Rails Developer, Kete Developer (http://kete.net.nz) Katipo Communications, Ltd. (http://katipo.co.nz) http://twitter.com/k776 - http://k776.tumblr.com On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Kyle Lutze <[email protected]> wrote: > I know we're not quite ready for beta5, but I thought it would be good > to have a written procedure for creating releases so our download page > doesn't look like we don't care about creating release packages like it > did up through 0.9.4.3, and still does for the linux distributions. Any > comments/concerns on making this a policy? > > - Kyle > ========== > Once a release is ready for a new version of glob2, the following steps > must first be completed > > 1) The mercurial branch is frozen and tagged as the rc1 release > > 2) Packages must be made for the source, windows, OS X, ubuntu, debian, > and fedora. An ebuild must be made for Gentoo. > > 3) these release candidate packages are to be uploaded to a separate > folder, a bug report made for each package for comments, and a message > sent out to the glob2-devel mailing list to get testers. The Download > and Install page should have a link to the download folder and and bug > reports to ask people to help with testing, but the main links should > NOT be updated to RCs. > > 4) The packages must go through testing for a week, any bugs found are > fixed and we repeat the process, bumping the release candidate number, > until the latest RC goes a full week without any new bugs being found. > > 5) If after a week no new bugs are found and everyone is satisfied, the > packages are renamed and uploaded as the final release. The Download and > Install page on the wiki is then completely updated and a mail sent out > to glob2-announce to hopefully get others to release packages for their > distros and players can update their copies. > > > > _______________________________________________ > glob2-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel > _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
