* Tahoe Release Checklist [0/19] - [ ] 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 - [ ] 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 intended version, make tarballs too (for comparison only) - [ ] push tag to trigger buildslaves. Making a code change is no longer necessary - git push official master TAGNAME - that will build tarballs - [ ] make sure buildbot is green - [ ] 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: - add prefix with SHA256 of tarballs, release pubkey, git revhash - GPG-sign the email with release key - send to tahoe-announce@tahoe-lafs.org and tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org - [ ] 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 - [ ] tweet to @tahoelafs - other stuff: - [ ] 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