Release Checklist

This is preliminary and just some notes.

• Obviously we want a list of tests and benchmarks.

  • duperemove-tests is an extremely basic start
  • Update the performance page on wiki
  • If time, add block dedupe performance (use block dedupe file set from duperemove-tests)

• Go through all documentation

  • update every option that was added removed or changed.
  • review which set of options should be in the duperemove.c usage() text
  • For next release, rewrite intro and usage examples to heavily feature hashfiles.
  • Add a usage section to the man page (can be same as part of the readme). Update the examples:
    • Using a hashfile
      • adding files to it
      • show that we can dedupe at any time, can run '-d' without file list argument.
      • listing files in it ('-L') (on 2nd thought this seems self-explanatory)
      • remove files from it ('-R') (on 2nd thought this seems self-explanatory)
      • demonstrate that we can ctrl-C after csum stage and restart with same hashfile
    • fdupes mode
    • block dedupe
  • Update/add a common issues portion to the docs, mine the issues section for this
  • Add information in FAQ about memory usage
    • how to estimate total memory that will be taken by each duplicate block (sizeof(struct file_block) * how many dupe blocks we find)
  • put some pointers to the wiki in the documentation