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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:35:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:35:18 +0000 |
| commit | b750101eb236130cf056c675997decbac904cc49 (patch) | |
| tree | a5df1a06754bdd014cb975c051c83b01c9a97532 /docs/RELEASE.md | |
| parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
| download | systemd-b750101eb236130cf056c675997decbac904cc49.tar.xz systemd-b750101eb236130cf056c675997decbac904cc49.zip | |
Adding upstream version 252.22.upstream/252.22
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.md b/docs/RELEASE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb698a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/RELEASE.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Steps to a Successful Release +category: Contributing +layout: default +SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later +--- + +# Steps to a Successful Release + +1. Add all items to NEWS +2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`ninja -C build git-contrib`) +3. Update the time and place in NEWS +4. Update hwdb (`ninja -C build update-hwdb`, `ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend`, commit separately). +5. Update syscall numbers (`ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header`). +6. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in `meson.build` +7. [RC1] Rename `.github/pull_request_template.md.disabled` to `.github/pull_request_template.md` to display the warning about soft-freeze for new features +8. [FINAL] Rename `.github/pull_request_template.md` to `.github/pull_request_template.md.disabled` to hide the warning about soft-freeze for new features +9. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs` +10. Update translation strings (`cd build`, `meson compile systemd-pot`, `meson compile systemd-update-po`) - drop the header comments from `systemd.pot` + re-add SPDX before committing. +11. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` +12. Do `ninja -C build` +13. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` +14. Upload the documentation: `ninja -C build doc-sync` +15. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) +16. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. +17. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. +18. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released`) +19. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). |