make check syntax-check distcheck
-* From top_srcdir, run:
+* To (i) set the date, version number, and release TYPE on line 3 of
+ NEWS, (ii) commit that, and (iii) tag the release, run
- build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag X.Y stable
-
- in order to (i) set the date, version number, and release type
- [stable/alpha/beta] on line 3 of NEWS, (ii) commit that, and (iii) tag the
- release. See --help if you need options such as:
-
- build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag --branch=maint -C _build X.Y.Z stable
+ # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or alpha
+ make release-commit RELEASE='X.Y TYPE'
* Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,stable}.
- # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or alpha
- make TYPE
+ make release RELEASE='X.Y TYPE'
* Test the tarball. Copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
it builds and passes all tests.
Once all the builds and tests have passed,
-* Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make TYPE" run above.
+* Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make release"
+ run above, or run
+
+ make upload RELEASE='X.Y TYPE'
* Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
* Announce it on Savannah first, so you can include the savannah.org
announcement link in the email message.
- From here:
- https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gzip/
- click on "submit news", then write something like the following:
- (If there is no such button, then enable "News" for the project via
- the Main -> "Select Features" menu item, or via this link:
- https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=gzip)
+ Go to the news-submission form:
+
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/submit.php?group=gzip
+
+ If it does not work, then enable "News" for the project via this link:
+
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=gzip
+
+ Write something like the following:
Subject: gzip-X.Y released [stable]
+verbatim+
-verbatim-
Then go here to approve it:
+
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=gzip
* Send the announcement email message.
-* After each non-alpha release, update the on-line manual accessible via
+* After each non-alpha release, run
- http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/
-
- by running this from top_srcdir:
+ make web-manual-update
- build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update
+ to update the on-line manual accessible at
- possibly with "-C <BUILDDIR>"
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/