Difference between revisions of "Releases/Create Release"

Latest revision as of 21:55, 9 October 2016

This is a guideline for release maintainer and main-developers how to create a release from git.

This is still TODO and needs major cleanup.

Decide what version number the release needs. See #Version number system below.
Check if all locations that contain the version number are up to date. If not, update the files so they reflect the current version number.
Create tag with current version-number.
Update Changelog
Update News section on the homepage with the release information and available release-files.
Create new tags for the bug tracker.

Releases/Branch-names	Release Candidates	Development Releases
`x.y`	`x.y-RCz`	`x.y-devz`

This version numbers are used for unstable (pre-RC) releases for beta-testing.

x - Is the major version number of the release.

y - Is the minor version number of the release.

z - Is the number of the dev-release candidate starting with 1.

This version numbers are used for pre-stable releases of the code. i.e the code should be feature-frozen.

Note: do not use uppercase letters when using this in filenames & git.

x - Is the major version number of the release.

y - Is the minor version number of the release.

z - Is the number of the Release Candidate starting with 1.

This version numbers are used for stable releases in the branches.

x - Is the same as in the Release candidates. This number will most probably only changed if some major refractory of the code is made.

y - Starts with 0 for the first stable release and is incremented for each following release.

z - unused

For each Release and Release Candidate we'll create a 'tag' in the repository so it can be accessed again later on.