Hello all! I'm moving this weekend, and one of the consequences of this is that I'll need to set up internet access at the new place. This will take some time - apparently, two to four weeks(!). During this time, I'll have only sporadic internet access.
I will still be checking my email, but I won't be idling on IRC quite as much! In the interest of ensuring my absence doesn't cause too much of a problem, I'll try to document all the steps required to make a release: a) Download translations from Launchpad[1]. Copy them into the po/ directory, then mass-rename them to strip the prefix. b) Bump the version in configure.ac. You don't need to do this this time, the version is already 0.8.1. c) Ensure it builds sanely: - The most important tool here is "make distcheck". This will build a tarball, extract the tarball, and do an out-of-tree build, then run some sanity checks (translatable files missing from po/POTFILES.in, etc). If this works it's a pretty good indication that the tarball will build on someone else's system - you haven't got some files in your working tree that aren't in the tarball, etc. If it doesn't pass "make distcheck", don't release - it probably won't build for someone. Common faults here are: * missing files from POTFILES.in. To fix this, "grep Catalog.GetString **/*.cs >> po/POTFILES.in", and remove the duplication. * Files missing from EXTRA_DIST somewhere. This shouldn't really happen with our new build system; all that voodoo is wrapped up in build.rules.mk. d) Upload the tarball to Launchpad. This is not necessarily obvious: - Uploads *have* to be associated with a release, which *has* to be associated to a series. We probably want to use the "0.8" series[2], then hit "register a release"[3]. - Now you've got a release, you'll want to go to the release page, and hit the "Add download file" button. If you've got a GPG key in the strong set (or otherwise well knows), sign it - the page tells you how. - Hit "upload", and you're done. There we go; the potted guide to making a GNOME Do release. [1] https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/do/trunk/+pots/gnomedo/+export [2] https://edge.launchpad.net/do/0.8 [3] https://edge.launchpad.net/do/0.8/+addrelease
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