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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 13:00:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 13:00:47 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 247.3.upstream/247.3upstream
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..a93c0c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/RELEASE.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Steps to a Successful Release +category: Contributing +layout: default +--- + +# 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. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in `meson.build` +5. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build man/update-dbus-docs` +6. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` +7. Do `ninja -C build` +8. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` +9. Upload the documentation: `ninja -C build doc-sync` +10. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) +11. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. +12. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. +13. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released`) +14. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:refs/heads/${version}-stable`, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). |