1 Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
3 * start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.
5 git checkout master; git pull
7 * Run ./configure && make maintainer-clean
9 * Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, bison, etc.
10 are in your PATH. See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
13 * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
14 This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff
16 * Run bootstrap: ./bootstrap
18 FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
20 * Pre-release testing:
21 Ensure that make check syntax-check succeeds.
22 On at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and one non-SELinux system,
23 run all tests, both root-only and regular.
24 Run *all* non-root tests, including expensive and very expensive ones i.e.,
25 run this: make -j1 check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
27 Run the root-only tests:
28 sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root
30 * Run "make distcheck"
32 * Set the date, version number, and release type [stable/alpha/beta] on
33 line 3 of NEWS, commit that, and tag the release by running e.g.,
35 build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag 8.1 beta
37 * Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
38 corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
39 The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
40 of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,stable}.
42 # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or alpha
45 * Test the tarball. copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
46 it builds and passes all tests.
48 * While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
51 Once all the builds and tests have passed,
53 * Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make stable" run above.
55 * Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
56 download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
57 that they're all valid.
59 * Push the NEWS-updating changes and the new tag:
61 v=$(cat .prev-version)
62 git push origin master tag v$v
64 * Send the gpg-signed announcement mail, e.g.,
66 To: info-gnu@gnu.org, coreutils-announce@gnu.org
67 Cc: coordinator@translationproject.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org
68 Subject: coreutils-8.0 released [beta]
70 * Approve the announcement here:
71 http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
73 * Announce it on Savannah, too:
75 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
76 click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
77 (If there is no such button, then enable "News" for the project via
78 the Main -> "Select Features" menu item, or via this link:
79 https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=coreutils)
81 Subject: coreutils-0.0 released [beta]
82 The announcement is here:
83 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/54
85 Then go here to approve it:
86 https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
88 * After each non-alpha release, update the on-line manual accessible via
90 http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
94 build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update