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===Sourceforge Upload===
===Sourceforge Upload===
*Upload via Project Admin
:*Upload via Project Admin
*Upload release and a release notes file
:*Upload release and a release notes file
*Set file properties appropriately
:*Set file properties appropriately


==8. Build and release the Ubuntu package.==
==8. Build and release the Ubuntu package.==

Revision as of 06:27, 24 March 2011

Overview

Steps detailing a release of 4.0.

1. Create a rel-400 branch from master in the git repo.

2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-400 branch and updates daily.

3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions

  • Also provide links for downloading rel-400 packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers

3. Finalize the translations in the rel-400 branch.

4. Bug fix and finalize the rel-400 branch.

5. Create a list of new features in the rel-400 branch (since the last official release)

6. Release rel-400 branch by tagging in git repo with v4_0_0.

  • Things to remember before tagging the release.
  • Remove dev (make it blank) from the version.php file
  • Ensure the debug language global in locale in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0

7.Build the zip and tar.gz packages from v4_0_0 and release packages on sourceforge.

git clone git://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openemr/openemr
git checkout origin/v4_0_0
rm -fr openemr/.git
chmod -R u+w openemr
chmod -R a+w openemr/sites/default/documents openemr/sites/default/edi openemr/sites/default/era
chmod a+w openemr/sites/default/sqlconf.php
chmod a+w openemr/gacl/admin/templates_c
chmod a+w openemr/sites/default/config.php
chmod -R a+w openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/cache
chmod -R a+w openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/compiled
mv openemr openemr-4.0.0

Linux (tarball)

tar zcpf openemr-4.0.0.tar.gz openemr-4.0.0

Windows (zip)

zip -r openemr-4.0.0.zip openemr-4.0.0

Sourceforge Upload

  • Upload via Project Admin
  • Upload release and a release notes file
  • Set file properties appropriately

8. Build and release the Ubuntu package.

  • Ensure new dependencies are added (such as php5-mcrypt)
  • Write and updated dependencies list for installations that can't use the installers

9. Build and release the Appliance.

10. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.