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diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.md b/docs/RELEASE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df04cb4 --- /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. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs` +8. 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. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file. +9. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` +10. Do `ninja -C build` +11. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` +12. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) +13. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. +14. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. +15. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/`) +16. Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`. +17. Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): `ninja -C build doc-sync` +18. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). +19. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io' |