1 How to make an MPlayer release
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5 - Announce release target date on dev-eng and #mplayerdev
6 - Ask the DOCS maintainers to commit their final changes, check if
7 all docs are up to date, etc.
8 - Verify man page, remove obsolete options, mention new ones.
9 - Ask translation maintainers to update their help_mp*.h file.
10 - Update the ChangeLog file (according to Subversion log), ask other developers
11 to verify their parts, etc. Ask Diego to spellcheck it.
12 - Consult at -dev-eng about unstable parts of the code which should be
13 disabled for the release.
14 - Find a codename for the release
16 create the release tree:
17 - tag Subversion with release name
18 - update release.sh script with version number
19 ***the following steps are done automatically by release.sh script***
20 - checkout the mplayer src tree
21 - check out FFmpeg subdirs
22 - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files
23 - replace version.sh with this (change version number too...):
27 echo "#define VERSION \"1.0pre5-$1 \"" > version.h
30 - build the HTML docs from XML sources, then clean up:
31 make html-chunked; make releaseclean
35 mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5
36 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5
37 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar
38 ***end of part done by release.sh**
40 test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run)
41 - compilers: gcc 3, gcc 2.95, mingw, cygwin
42 - architectures: PPC, AMD64, x86 with MMX[2], SSE[2], 3DNow
43 - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS X
46 cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/
47 cp ChangeLog-0.90rc5 and update ChangeLog symlink
48 md5sum MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 > MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2.md5
50 move the older (pre)release(s) (except the last one before the current one)
53 Somehow get Diego to write a news entry for the release, and update the
54 source file of dload.html and commit it. Test it, it's sometimes buggy
55 (broken links etc). Also, update translated versions of dload.html.
57 Send a message to mplayer-announce mailing list.
59 Add the new release version to bugzilla page.
61 Update release version in #mplayer topic
63 Update project page on Freshmeat