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==11. Announce Release==
==11. Announce Release==
Use the follow social channels to announce the release in ~140 characters or less with a link to the formal release marketing piece or, if the release is a minor or patch release, a link to the wiki release changelog.
:*Sourceforge
:*Sourceforge
:*Twitter
:*Twitter
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:*Diaspora
:*Diaspora
:*Linkedin
:*Linkedin
Update the OpenEMR Wikipedia entry:
:*Wikipedia
If the release is a major release (as opposed to minor or patch releases), it is best to put together a nice marketing piece describing the release changes (screenshots are encouraged with new features!). Use http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/openemr-v412-planned-release as inspiration. This release announcement should be posted on the following sites:
:*Linuxmednews
:*Linuxmednews
:*Wikipedia
:*OpenHealthNews
:*HackerNews
 
TODO: are there any other OSS sites that would be interested in having OpenEMR releases pop up in their feeds?


==12. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.==
==12. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.==

Revision as of 00:26, 29 June 2016

Overview

Steps detailing a release (4.2.2 is given as an example).

1. Create a rel-422 branch from master in the git repo.

  • Login into the sourceforge shell and go to the git repo and type:
git branch rel-422 master

2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-422 branch and updates daily.

  • Also provide links for downloading rel-422 daily builds/packages(zip and tarball) to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers

3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions

4. Finalize the translations in the rel-422 branch.

5. Bug fix and finalize the rel-422 branch.

  • Update the copyright/acknowledgements page by copying the copyright page from HERE to acknowledge_license_cert.html in openemr codebase

6. Create a list of new features in the rel-422 branch (since the last official release)

7. Prepare files for the Ubuntu/debian package

  • Ensure following files are updated at openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/ in codebase:
  • control
  • Update Version
  • Update Installed-Size (just estimate it, doesn't need to be accurate)
  • Add new package dependencies (if pertinent, for example in 4.1.0, adding php5-soap and also a Pre-Depends:debconf)
  • README.Debian
  • Change the dates at bottom of file to release date (use date -R to get correctly formatted date).
  • changelog.Debian
  • Add entry for new version:
openemr (4.2.2-1) stable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

 -- Brady Miller <brady@sparmy.com>  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:46:08 -0700
  • copyright
  • Add current date near top (use date -R to get correctly formatted date)
  • Modify the copyright years (two of them), if needed
  • preinst
  • Update the algorithm to upgrade the previous version correctly

8. Release rel-422 branch by tagging in git repo with v4_2_2.

  • Things to remember before tagging the release.
  • Remove -dev from $v_tag (make it blank) in the version.php file
  • Ensure the 'allow_debug_language' global in locale section in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0
  • Login into the sourceforge shell and go to the git repo and type:
git tag v4_2_2 rel-422

9. Build the tar.gz, zip and deb packages from v4_2_2.

Here is a script that automates the release builds below:

10. Release packages on sourceforge

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

11. Announce Release

Use the follow social channels to announce the release in ~140 characters or less with a link to the formal release marketing piece or, if the release is a minor or patch release, a link to the wiki release changelog.

  • Sourceforge
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • google+
  • Diaspora
  • Linkedin

Update the OpenEMR Wikipedia entry:

  • Wikipedia

If the release is a major release (as opposed to minor or patch releases), it is best to put together a nice marketing piece describing the release changes (screenshots are encouraged with new features!). Use http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/openemr-v412-planned-release as inspiration. This release announcement should be posted on the following sites:

  • Linuxmednews
  • OpenHealthNews
  • HackerNews

TODO: are there any other OSS sites that would be interested in having OpenEMR releases pop up in their feeds?

12. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.