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How to do a GTK+ release?
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Make sure you have suitable versions of autoconf and libtool.
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Also make sure you have the following packages installed with all their
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dependencies:
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* gtk-doc
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* docbook-utils
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Without those packages make distcheck will *not* pass.
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Make sure that gtk-doc is the latest released version.
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0) Go back to a pristine working directory. With git, this works:
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git clean -f -x
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1) autogen and build it, make sure to enable docs by specifying
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--enable-gtk-doc --enable-man
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2) Update NEWS based on the content of git log; follow the format
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of prior entries. This includes finding noteworthy new features,
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collecting summaries for all the fixed bugs that are referenced
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and collecting all updated translations.
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Also collect the names of all contributors that are mentioned.
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We don't discriminate between bug reporters, patch writers,
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committers, etc. Anybody who is mentioned in ChangeLog gets
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credits, but only real names, not email addresses or nicknames.
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3) In particular, if this is a major, stable, release, verify that
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README.in contains the relevant release notes and that the
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required versions of dependencies in INSTALL.in are in sync
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with configure.in.
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4) Verify that the version in configure.in has been bumped after the last
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release. (Note that this is critical, a slip-up here will cause the
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soname to change).
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5) Make sure that make check is happy (If you don't do it here, make distcheck
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will also catch it, but it is kind of disheartening to see make distcheck
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fail due to an extraneous symbol after watching it build the docs for an
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hour...).
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Typical problems to expect here (depending on whether this is a devel
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snapshot or a stable release):
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* forgotten source files
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* new symbols missing from .symbols files
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* symbols that are exported by should be private (static or _-prefixed)
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* symbols that cause PLT entries. This is either caused by using
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a in the same library function without including the header or by
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using a function from a different library, which is not yet allowed
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by the filter in pltcheck.sh
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6) If this is a devel release, make sure that the docs for new symbols
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are in good shape. Look at the -unused.txt files and add stuff found
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there to the corresponding -sections.txt file. Look at the
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-undocumented.txt files and see if there is anything in there that
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should be documented. If it is, this may be due to typos in the doc
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comments in the source. Make sure that all new symbols have proper
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Since: tags, and that there is an index in the main -docs.sgml for
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the next stable version.
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7) make distcheck
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8) Fix broken stuff found by 7), repeat
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9) Commit all changes: git commit -a. You will have a bunch of po file
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changes, NEWS and maybe some doc changes too
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10) Now you've got the tarball. Check that the tarball size looks
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reasonable compared to previous releases. If the size goes down
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a lot, likely the docs went missing for some reason. Or the translations.
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If the size goes up by a lot, something else may be wrong.
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11) Tag the release. The git command for doing that looks like
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git tag -m "GTK+ 2.12.10" 2.12.10
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12) Push the tagged commit upstream. The git command for doing that is
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git push origin refs/tags/2.12.10
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13) Bump the version number in configure.in and commit and push this change
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14) Upload the tarball to master.gnome.org and run install-module to transfer
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it to download.gnome.org. If you don't have an account on master.gnome.org,
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find someone who can do it for you. The command for this looks like
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scp gtk+-2.12.10.tar.gz matthiasc@master.gnome.org:
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ssh matthiasc@master.gnome.org
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install-module gtk+-2.12.10.tar.gz
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15) Get the .bz2 tarball and the .md5sum files back from master.gnome.org
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You can probably also create it locally, but I've experienced md5
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mismatches when doing so.
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16) Upload the .gz and .bz2 tarballs and checksums to ftp.gtk.org and put
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them in the right directory below /ftp/pub. Pay attention to correct
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ownership, and don't forget to update the LATEST file in the directory.
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17) Go to the gnome-announce list archives, find the last announce message,
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create a new message in the same form, replacing version numbers,
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commentary at the top about "what this release is about" and the
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summary of changes.
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18) Send it to gnome-announce-list, gtk-list, gtk-app-devel-list and
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gtk-devel-list. Set reply-to to desktop-devel-list.
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19) Add a link to the release announcement to www.gtk.org which lives
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in the gtk-web git module.
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