Steps for an official release

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Revision as of 01:37, 20 March 2011 by Bradymiller (talk | contribs)
1. Create a rel-??? branch from master in the git repo.
2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-??? branch and updates daily.
3. Publish installation and upgrade instructions.
  • Also provide links for downloading rel-??? packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers.
3. Finalize the translations in the rel-??? branch.
4. Bug fix and finalize the rel-??? branch.
5. Create a list of new features in the rel-??? branch (since the last official release).
6. Release rel-??? branch by tagging in git repo with v?_?_?.
  • 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
  • Build the zip and tar.gz packages from v_?_?_? and release packages on sourceforge.
7. Build and release the Ubuntu package.
  • Ensure new dependencies are added (such as php5-mcrypt)
8. Build and release the Appliance.
9. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.