CHECKLST.txt

   1 Checklists for PuTTY administrative procedures
   2 ==============================================
   3
   4 Locations of the licence
   5 ------------------------
   6
   7 The PuTTY copyright notice and licence are stored in quite a few
   8 places. At the start of a new year, the copyright year needs
   9 updating in all of them; and when someone sends a massive patch,
  10 their name needs adding in all of them too.
  11
  12 The LICENCE file in the main source distribution:
  13
  14  - putty/LICENCE
  15
  16 The resource files:
  17
  18  - putty/windows/pageant.rc
  19     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
  20       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
  21  - putty/windows/puttygen.rc
  22     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
  23       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
  24  - putty/windows/win_res.rc2
  25     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
  26       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
  27  - putty/windows/version.rc2
  28     + the copyright date appears once only.
  29  - putty/unix/gtkdlg.c
  30     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
  31       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
  32
  33 The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix):
  34
  35  - putty/doc/blurb.but
  36  - putty/doc/licence.but
  37
  38 The website:
  39
  40  - putty-website/licence.html
  41
  42 Before tagging a release
  43 ------------------------
  44
  45  - First of all, go through the source (including the documentation),
  46    and the website, and review anything tagged with a comment
  47    containing the word XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE.
  48    (Any such comments should state clearly what needs to be done.)
  49
  50  - Also, do some testing of the Windows version with Minefield, and
  51    of the Unix version with valgrind or efence or both. In
  52    particular, any headline features for the release should get a
  53    workout with memory checking enabled!
  54
  55 For a long time we got away with never checking the current version
  56 number in at all - all version numbers were passed into the build
  57 system on the compiler command line, and the _only_ place version
  58 numbers showed up in the source files was in the tag information.
  59
  60 Unfortunately, those halcyon days are gone, and we do need the
  61 version number checked in in a couple of places. These must be updated
  62 _before_ tagging a new release.
  63
  64 The file used to generate the Unix snapshot version numbers (which
  65 are <previousrelease>-<date> so that the Debian versioning system
  66 orders them correctly with respect to releases):
  67
  68  - putty/LATEST.VER
  69
  70 The Windows installer script (_four_ times, on consecutive lines):
  71
  72  - putty/windows/putty.iss
  73
  74 The Windows resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the
  75 VERSIONINFO resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means):
  76
  77  - putty/windows/version.rc2 (BASE_VERSION; NB, _comma_-separated)
  78
  79 It might also be worth going through the documentation looking for
  80 version numbers - we have a couple of transcripts showing the help
  81 text from the command-line tools, and it would be nice to ensure the
  82 whole transcripts (certainly including the version numbers) are up
  83 to date. Sometimes these are marked in between releases as `0.XX', so
  84 it's worth grepping for that too.
  85
  86  - putty/doc/pscp.but
  87  - putty/doc/plink.but
  88  - putty/doc/psftp.but (in case it ever acquires a similar thing)
  89
  90 The actual release procedure
  91 ----------------------------
  92
  93 This is the procedure I (SGT) currently follow (or _should_ follow
  94 :-) when actually making a release, once I'm happy with the position
  95 of the tag.
  96
  97  - Double-check that we have removed anything tagged with a comment
  98    containing the words XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE or
  99    XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE.
 100
 101  - Write a release announcement (basically a summary of the changes
 102    since the last release). Squirrel it away in
 103    ixion:src/putty/local/announce-<ver> in case it's needed again
 104    within days of the release going out.
 105
 106  - Build the release: `bob putty-0.XX RELEASE=0.XX'. This should
 107    generate a basically valid release directory as
 108    `build.out/putty', and provide link maps and sign.sh alongside
 109    that in build.out.
 110
 111  - Do a bit of checking that the release binaries basically work,
 112    report their version numbers accurately, and so on. Test the
 113    installer and the Unix source tarball.
 114
 115  - Save the link maps. Currently I keep these on ixion, in
 116    src/putty/local/maps-<version>.
 117
 118  - Sign the release: in the `build.out' directory, type `./sign.sh
 119    putty Releases', and enter the passphrases a lot of times.
 120
 121  - Now the whole release directory should be present and correct.
 122    Upload it to ixion:www/putty/<ver>.
 123
 124  - Do final checks on the release directory:
 125     + verify all the signatures:
 126       for i in `find . -name '*.*SA'`; do case $i in *md5sums*) gpg --verify $i;; *) gpg --verify $i ${i%%.?SA};; esac; done
 127     + check the md5sums:
 128       md5sum -c md5sums
 129
 130  - Having double-checked the release, copy it from ixion to
 131    chiark:ftp/putty-<ver> and to the:www/putty/<ver>.
 132
 133  - Check the permissions! Actually try downloading from the, to make
 134    sure it really works.
 135
 136  - Update the HTTP redirects.
 137     + Update the one at the:www/putty/htaccess which points the
 138       virtual subdir `latest' at the actual latest release dir. TEST
 139       THIS ONE - it's quite important.
 140     + ixion:www/putty/.htaccess has an individual redirect for each
 141       version number. Add a new one.
 142
 143  - Update the FTP symlink (chiark:ftp/putty-latest -> putty-<ver>).
 144
 145  - Update web site.
 146    + Adjust front page (`the latest version is <ver>').
 147    + Adjust Download page similarly.
 148    + Adjust filenames of installer and Unix tarball on links in
 149      Download page.
 150    + Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing
 151      `are new' in previous version to `were new'!)
 152
 153  - Update the wishlist. This can be done without touching individual
 154    items by editing the @releases array in control/bugs2html.
 155
 156  - Check the Docs page links correctly to the release docs. (It
 157    should do this automatically, owing to the `latest' HTTP
 158    redirect.)
 159
 160  - Check that the web server attaches the right content type to .HLP
 161    and .CNT files.
 162
 163  - Run webupdate, so that all the changes on ixion propagate to
 164    chiark. Important to do this _before_ announcing that the release
 165    is available.
 166
 167  - After running webupdate, run update-rsync on chiark and verify
 168    that the rsync mirror package correctly identifies the new
 169    version.
 170
 171  - Announce the release!
 172     + Mail the announcement to putty-announce.
 173        * Set a Reply-To on the mail so that people don't keep
 174          replying to my personal address.
 175     + Post it to comp.security.ssh.
 176     + Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.
 177
 178  - Relax (slightly).
 179
 180 After the release
 181 -----------------
 182
 183 The following want doing some time soon after a release has been made:
 184
 185  - If the release was made from a branch, make sure the version number
 186    on the _trunk_ is up to date in all the locations listed above, so
 187    that (e.g.) Unix snapshots come out right.