release.txt

vcprompt release process
========================

* make sure "hg summary --remote" is clean (nothing uncommitted,
  synced with remote)

* read through README.txt and make sure it's still valid

* read the man page and make sure it's still valid:

    groff -Tascii -man vcprompt.1 | less

* commit and push any required changes

* clone on at least one different machine and run the tests:

    hg clone http://hg.gerg.ca/vcprompt
    cd vcprompt
    autoconf && ./configure
    make grind      # requires valgrind
    make check      # if valgrind not installed

* select the version number, e.g.:

    ver=x.y.z

* tag the release and build the source tarball

    hg tag $ver
    make dist ver=$ver

* test the tarball locally

    cp dist/vcprompt-$ver.tar.gz /tmp
    cd /tmp
    tar -xzf vcprompt-$ver.tar.gz
    cd vcprompt-$ver
    ./configure
    make grind

* copy to at least one different machine and test there

    host=<something>
    scp /tmp/vcprompt-$ver.tar.gz $host:/tmp
    ssh $host "cd /tmp && tar -xzf vcprompt-$ver.tar.gz && cd vcprompt-$ver && ./configure && make check"

* push outgoing (tag) changeset

    hg push

* upload tarball to bitbucket from

    https://bitbucket.org/gward/vcprompt/downloads

* announce to mailing list (vcprompt-devel@googlegroups.com), e.g.:

"""
Hi all --

I am pleased to announce the release of vcprompt 1.1. You can download
the tarball from

  https://bitbucket.org/gward/vcprompt/downloads/vcprompt-1.1.tar.gz

Changes in this release:

* add support for reporting modified/unknown files in Mercurial working
  dirs (%m and %u format specifiers) (thanks to Geoff Lane)

* tweaks to "make install" (thanks to Jakob Kramer)

If you have any problems, please report them on this mailing list, or
open a bug report on bitbucket.

        Greg
"""

* announce on freecode.com
  (https://freecode.com/projects/vcprompt/releases/new)

* announce on twitter