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author | hulkoba <jacoba@neighbourhood.ie> | 2024-01-30 12:57:10 +0100 |
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diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.md b/docs/RELEASE.md deleted file mode 100644 index b712ba6b07..0000000000 --- a/docs/RELEASE.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Steps to a Successful Release -category: Contributing -layout: default -SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later ---- - -# Steps to a Successful Release - -1. Add all items to NEWS -2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`ninja -C build git-contrib`) -3. Update the time and place in NEWS -4. Update hwdb (`ninja -C build update-hwdb`, `ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend`, commit separately). -5. Update syscall numbers (`ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header`). -6. [RC1] Update library numbers in `meson.build` -7. Update version number in `meson.version` (e.g. from `v256~devel` to `v256~rc1` or from `v256~rc3` to `v256`) -8. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs` -9. Update translation strings (`cd build`, `meson compile systemd-pot`, `meson compile systemd-update-po`) - drop the header comments from `systemd.pot` + re-add SPDX before committing. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file. -10. Tag the release: `version=vXXX~rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"`. Note that this uses a tilde (\~) instead of a hyphen (-) because tildes sort lower in version comparisons according to the [version format specification](https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/version_format_specification/), and we want `v255~rc1` to sort lower than `v255`. -11. Do `ninja -C build` -12. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` -13. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) -14. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. -15. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. -16. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/`) -17. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`. -18. [FINAL] Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): `ninja -C build doc-sync` -19. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). -20. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io' -21. [FINAL] Update version number in `meson.version` to the devel version of the next release (e.g. from `v256` to `v257~devel`) |