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HowToRelease.rst
Log Message:
(some) lessons learned.
Please read carefully and keep in mind.
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- A release is a major time investment of several people. Cooperation
of all developers is essential to live up to our charter: to deliver
state-of-the-art database technology to the community.
+- In particular, a new release should not be worse than any previous one,
+ i.e., all features and tests that did work before (and are still
+ supported) must still work flawlessly with the new release.
- Strictly adhere to bug fixes and feature updates. Nothing
is a bug fix unless it is covered by a bug report.
- Remember that after every release there will be uncountable
@@ -37,6 +40,11 @@
- Regularly try building the release on Windows during this stage.
This includes trying to create installers and trying out the
installers.
+- A major (and very time consuming) task of the release manager is to
+ continuously remind the developers to indeed care about and fix their
+ bugs. This task consists mainly of reading aloud both the nightly testing
+ result emails and the daily TestWeb status to each involved developer
+ personally.
Preparation of a Major Release
------------------------------
@@ -57,6 +65,10 @@
``dft_netcdf=no``).
- Create a tag on the head of the new branch for propagation purposes
(e.g. ``cvs tag MonetDB_1-16_sync``).
+- Update the nightly testing setup to use the new branch for nightly
+ testing.
+- Where necessary, update the "TestWeb" pages of the MonetDB web site to
+ point to the new branch's nighly testing results.
After this, it's **bug fixes only** on the new branch.
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