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Release Checklist
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These instructions were produced while making the 1.15.0 release. They
are based on the original instructions (in old revisions in the file
`docs/how_to_make_a_tahoe-lafs_release.org`).

Any contributer can do the first part of the release preparation. Only
certain contributers can perform other parts. These are the two main
sections of this checklist (and could be done by different people).


Any Contributor
---------------

Anyone who can create normal PRs should be able to complete this
portion of the release process.


Prepare for the Release
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The `master` branch should always be releasable.

It may be worth asking (on IRC or mailing-ist) if anything will be
merged imminently (for example, "I will prepare a release this coming
Tuesday if you want to get anything in").

- Create a ticket for the release in Trac
- Ticket number needed in next section


Create Branch and Apply Updates
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- Create a branch for release-candidates (e.g. `release-1.15.0.rc0`)
- run `tox -e news` to produce a new NEWS.txt file (this does a commit)
- create the news for the release
  - newsfragments/<ticket number>.minor
  - commit it
- manually fix NEWS.txt
  - proper title for lastest release ("Release 1.15.0" instead of "Release ...post1432")
  - double-check date (maybe release will be in the future)
  - spot-check the release notes (these come from the newsfragments
    files though so don't do heavy editing)
  - commit these changes
- update "relnotes.txt"
  - update all mentions of 1.14.0 -> 1.15.0
  - update "previous release" statement and date
  - summarize major changes
  - commit it
- update "CREDITS"
  - are there any new contributers in this release?
  - one way: git log release-1.14.0.. | grep Author | sort | uniq
  - commit it
- update "docs/known_issues.rst" if appropriate
- update "docs/INSTALL.rst" references to the new release
- Push the branch to github
- Create a (draft) PR; this should trigger CI (note that github
  doesn't let you create a PR without some changes on the branch so
  running + commiting the NEWS.txt file achieves that without changing
  any code)
- Confirm CI runs successfully on all platforms


Create Release Candidate
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Before "officially" tagging any release, we will make a
release-candidate available. So there will be at least 1.15.0rc0 (for
example). If there are any problems, an rc1 or rc2 etc may also be
released. Anyone can sign these releases (ideally they'd be signed
"officially" as well, but it's better to get them out than to wait for
that).

Typically expert users will be the ones testing release candidates and
they will need to evaluate which contributers' signatures they trust.

- (all steps above are completed)
- sign the release
  - git tag -s -u 0xE34E62D06D0E69CFCA4179FFBDE0D31D68666A7A -m "release Tahoe-LAFS-1.15.0rc0" tahoe-lafs-1.15.0.rc0
  - (replace the key-id above with your own)
- build all code locally
  - these should all pass:
    - tox -e py27,codechecks,docs,integration
  - these can fail (ideally they should not of course):
    - tox -e deprecations,upcoming-deprecations
- build tarballs
  - tox -e tarballs
  - confirm it at least exists:
  - ls dist/ | grep 1.15.0rc0
- inspect and test the tarballs
  - install each in a fresh virtualenv
  - run basic tests
- when satisfied, sign the tarballs:
  - gpg --pinentry=loopback --armor --sign dist/tahoe_lafs-1.15.0rc0-py2-none-any.whl
  - gpg --pinentry=loopback --armor --sign dist/tahoe_lafs-1.15.0rc0.tar.bz2
  - gpg --pinentry=loopback --armor --sign dist/tahoe_lafs-1.15.0rc0.tar.gz
  - gpg --pinentry=loopback --armor --sign dist/tahoe_lafs-1.15.0rc0.zip


Privileged Contributor
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Steps in this portion require special access to keys or
infrastructure. For example, **access to tahoe-lafs.org** to upload
binaries or edit HTML.


Hack Tahoe-LAFS
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Did anyone contribute a hack since the last release? If so, then
https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/ needs to be updated.


Upload Artifacts
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Any release-candidate or actual release plus signature (.asc file)
need to be uploaded to https://tahoe-lafs.org in `~source/downloads`

- secure-copy all release artifacts to the download area on the
  tahoe-lafs.org host machine. `~source/downloads` on there maps to
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads/ on the Web.
- scp dist/*1.15.0* username@tahoe-lafs.org:/home/source/downloads
- the following developers have access to do this:
  - exarkun
  - meejah
  - warner

For the actual release, the tarball and signature files need to be
uploaded to PyPI as well.

- how to do this?
- (original guide says only "twine upload dist/*")
- the following developers have access to do this:
  - warner
  - exarkun (partial?)
  - meejah (partial?)