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* Tahoe Release Checklist [0/19]
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- [ ] make sure buildbot, travis, appveyor are green
- [ ] NEWS.rst: summarize user-visible changes, aim for one page of text
- [ ] update doc files
- NEWS.rst: Add final release name and date to top-most item in NEWS.
- relnotes.txt
- CREDITS
- docs/known_issues.rst
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- [ ] change docs/INSTALL.rst to point to just the current
tahoe-lafs-X.Y.Z.tar.gz source code file
- [ ] announce the tree is locked on IRC
- [ ] git pull, should be empty
- [ ] git tag -s -u 68666A7A -m "release Tahoe-LAFS-X.Y.Z" tahoe-lafs-X.Y.Z
- produces a "signed tag"
- [ ] build locally to make sure the release is reporting itself as the
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intended version, make tarballs too (for comparison only)
- [ ] push tag to trigger buildslaves. Making a code change is no longer
necessary (TODO: pushing just 1.12.0b2 was insufficient: travis fired,
but not buildbot)
- git push official master TAGNAME
- that will build tarballs
- [ ] make sure buildbot is green
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- [ ] download tarballs+wheels
- [ ] announce tree is unlocked
- [ ] compare tarballs+wheels against local copies (but sign upstreams)
- [ ] sign each with "gpg -ba -u 68666a7a FILE"
- [ ] twine register dist/FILE
- [ ] twine upload dist/*
- [ ] test "pip install tahoe-lafs" (from PyPI)
- [ ] upload *.asc to org ~source/downloads/
- [ ] copy the release tarball,sigs to tahoe-lafs.org: ~source/downloads/
- [ ] move old release out of ~source/downloads (to downloads/old/?)
- [ ] send out relnotes.txt:
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- add prefix with SHA256 of tarballs, release pubkey, git revhash
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- GPG-sign the email with release key
- send to tahoe-announce@tahoe-lafs.org and tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org
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- [ ] update Wiki front page: version on download link, News column
- [ ] update Wiki "Doc": parade of release notes (with rev of NEWS.rst)
- [ ] close the Milestone on the trac Roadmap
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- [ ] tweet to @tahoelafs
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- other stuff:
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- [ ] update https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/
- [ ] make an "announcement of new release" on freshmeat
- [ ] make an "announcement of new release" on launchpad
- [ ] send out relnotes.txt to:
- p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com
- lwn@lwn.net
- a Google+ page
- cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org
- cryptography@metzdown.com
- cryptography@randombit.net
- twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com
- owncloud@kde.org
- liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
- the "decentralization" group on groups.yahoo.com
- pycrypto mailing list
- fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
- fuse-sshfs@lists.sourceforge.net
- duplicity-talk@nongnu.org
- news@phoronix.com
- python-list@python.org
- cygwin@cygwin.com
- The Boulder Linux Users' Group
- The Boulder Hackerspace mailing list
- cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com
- tiddlywiki
- hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org
- bzr
- mercurial
- http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/
- deltacloud
- libcloud
- swift@lists.launchpad.net
- stephen@fosketts.net
- Chris Mellor of The Register
- nosql@mypopescu.com
- The H Open
- fans/customers of cleversafe
- fans/customers of bitcasa
- fans/customers of wuala
- fans/customers of spideroak