Preparing a New Release

Table of Contents    Instructions    Checklist    More Information    Publicity      Crew      TODOs      See also

Instructions

• Create a new page called KexiReleaseStatus<x.y>
  • where <x.y> is the version number to be released
• Copy the checklist below to that page
• Mark each entry as [DONE] when that task has been completed
• Ordering in the list below is quite important

TODO: Add a checklist for Kexi releases within KOffice.

Checklist

• Update files:
  • koffice/kexi/CHANGES
  • koffice/changes-x.y
  • koffice/README.PACKAGERS

• Increase version-info in Makefile.global (just change the major number, i.e. x:0:0)

• Update KEXI_VERSION_* and KEXI_VERSION_STRING in kexi_version.h

• For standalone releases, uncomment KEXI_STANDALONE #define in kexi_global.h; comment it for releases bundled with KOffice

• Prepare detailed changelog, by collecting and mergine developer's individual changelogs

• Prepare top-level changelog (see Preparing a Changelog)

• Prepare screenshots based on new features and improvements (avoid screenshots duplication)

• Build and test tarball, particularly:
  • --enable-final

• Build and test KexiMDB tarball

• (standalone only) Create a tag in KDE Subversion repository: /tags/kexi/{version}

• Prepare announcement (mention new developers)

• Update Download page

• Upload kexi and keximdb tarballs

• Notify packagers about available tarballs

• Update About page

• Announce the release on web sites and mailing lists, in particular:
  • update Kexi version in /trunk/www/areas/koffice/media/includes/koffice.inc (no karma for that, ask dfaure to update)
  • update Kexi features list in /trunk/www/areas/koffice/kexi/features.php; (changes can be previewed at http://kde.org/areas/koffice/kexi/)
  • update /trunk/www/areas/koffice/kexi/versions.php (ver. info)

• Notify publicity (see below)

More Information

• KOffice tagging HOWTO

Publicity ^ toc

Crew

Help in re-sending the announcement offered by:

• Patrick Trettenbrein < patrick.trettenbrein at gmx.net >

 > If you send me mail when the new Kexi release is out (or better one or two
 > days before it's out ;-)), I'll inform german newssites and magazines. (Just
 > to let german-speaking people know which sites and mags: http://heise.de;
 > http://golem.de; http://symlink.ch; http://spiegel.de; LINUX USER; LINUX
 > MAGAZINE; EASY LINUX; PC PRAXIS and PC WELT)

• DO YOU WANT TO HELP WITH ANNOUNCING NEW KEXI RELEASES? LET US KNOW.

TODOs

• MySQL guy, Arjen Lentz <arjen at mysql.com> offered a possibility of publishing Kexi tutorial on dev.mysql.com web site. We just need to make such tutorial. The document could be similar to this one

See also

• http://www.spreadkde.org/handbook/release_promotion
• http://www.sloganizer.net/en/