On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Nicolas Lehuen wrote:
Grisha, can you tell us what is the process to release a new version, including the update of the web site ?
Updating the site is trivial, I can do it, that's the last thing to worry about. Releasing a new version is a bit more complicated.
The instructions for making the actual tgz file are at the bottom of Doc/Makefile file. I have no idea why I decided to stick them there, perhaps it's better to create a separate file called Doc/release-instructions.txt or something.
The instructions were written with CVS in mind so we'll need to figure out the SVN counterparts of the required commands.
You'll definitely need to be on a unix machine of some sort that has TeTeX installed to produce the documentation, it's actually pretty easy.
This being a somewhat major release, I think we should perhaps tag it 3.2.0-rc1 (to be followed by rc2, etc).
Once the tgz file is ready we will need to collect votes on the list to make sure it actually works. Once it's been tested anough by the folks on the list (we need 4 or more I think) enough votes are collected, it can be released on the apache site and formally announced.
Grisha
