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2 | title: Steps to a Successful Release | |
4cdca0af | 3 | category: Contributing |
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c1d3483d | 7 | # Steps to a Successful Release |
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9 | 1. Add all items to NEWS | |
f5a44d42 | 10 | 2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`ninja -C build git-contrib`) |
d11343ac | 11 | 3. Update the time and place in NEWS |
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12 | 4. Update version and library numbers in `meson.build` |
13 | 5. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` | |
14 | 6. Do `ninja -C build` | |
15 | 7. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` | |
16 | 8. Upload the documentation: `ninja -C build doc-sync` | |
afa4e4a9 | 17 | 9. [After final release] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) |
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18 | 10. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. |
19 | 11. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. | |
20 | 12. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released`) | |
31e1bbd1 | 21 | 13. [After final release] Also push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:refs/heads/${version}-stable`, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). |