docs/RELEASE.md

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