How to do a release

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You made a new release, the world is waiting for it. Here is what to do:

Prepare a tarball

./autogen.sh
make dist

Ideally, offer binaries for the different systems. This is not required, and many packages (such as libvorbis, etc) ship only as source releases. If in doubt, do what previous releases did. If there are no previous releases, libs usually ship as source only, applications tend to offer binaries.

Repository check-in

Check-in your release and the updated checksum files MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS to 

https://svn.xiph.org/releases/YOUR-COMPONENT/

Extending the checksum files is easy on a Unix machine: 

md5sum YOUR-FILE >> MD5SUMS
sha1sum YOUR-FILE >> SHA1SUMS

Website update

Add downloadable files

After about 30(?) minutes repository changes will be visible on 

http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/YOUR-COMPONENT/

immediate mirror update

The mirrorpush is performed by an every-half-hour cron task. If, for some reason, it's important to update the mirrors immediately, the following may be run as root on Motherfish to force-push: 

cd /home/mirrorpush; ./update_downloads.sh

The script must be run from the /home/mirrorpush directory.

Update HTML

Downloads page

Then you should update the download section on the Xiph website. In there repository this file is located at 

https://svn.xiph.org/websites/xiph.org/downloads/index.shtml.en

News page

New releases of official projects should include an announcement. The same announcement that is sent to the email announcement lists is used as the basis for a 'press release' on the Xiph news/press page. New news entries must be added seperately to the press page and the Xiph front page. Theora-related releases should also be added to the Theora News page.

The various xiph.org web sites must be edited through SVN just like the release download files. The websites can be found under svn.xiph.org/websites/.

immediate HTML update

Website changes are updated by a cron script like the download mirrors. To force an immediate website update, perform the following as root on Motherfish: 

 cd /var/www; ./update_websites.sh

Announcement

Announce your release where apropriate. This can include

  • The various Xiph.Org website news pages; see above.
  • Announce
  • your blog
  • the project's FreshMeat page
  • <other suitable places>

It might also be a good idea to notify people maintaining ports of your project.

See Also

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