Release Guide

Usually release candidates are tagged 0.6.0.rc1, 0.6.0.rc2 and tested for a week or so.

Release libstrophe and libmesode if required
Run Unit tests: make check-unit
Run Functional tests - Currently disabled
Run manual valgrind tests for new features
Build and simple tests in Virtual machines ideally all dists including OSX and Windows (Cygwin)
Update Inline command help (./src/command/cmd_defs.c)
Check copright dates in all files (Copywright 2012-2019)
Generate HTML docs (the docgen argument only works when package status is development) ./profanity docgen
Update plugin API docs (./apidocs/c and ./apidocs/python) need to run the gen.sh and commit the results to the website git repo
Update CHANGELOG
Update profrc.example

Creating artefacts

Clone the repository
Set the correct release version in configure.ac:

AC_INIT([profanity], [0.6.0], [boothj5web@gmail.com])

Set the package status in configure ac:

PACKAGE_STATUS="release"

Commit
Tag (0.6.0)
Push
Set version to next release

AC_INIT([profanity], [0.7.0], [boothj5web@gmail.com])

Set the pacakge status back to dev

PACKAGE_STATUS="development"

Create a branch for patch releases (0.6.patch)
Push
Clone the repository into a fresh folder and checkout the tag

git clone https://github.com/boothj5/profanity.git profanity-0.6.0
cd profanity-0.6.0
git checkout 0.6.0

Remove files not needed in the artefcat

rm -rf apidocs .git
rm CHANGELOG configure-debug configure-plugins .gitignore profanity.spec prof.supp README.md theme_template travis-build.sh .travis.yml

Bootstrap the build

./bootstrap.sh

Remove automake cache

rm -rf autom4te.cache

Leave the folder and create the artefacts

cd ..
tar -zcvf profanity-0.6.0.tar.gz profanity-0.6.0
zip -r profanity-0.6.0.zip profanity-0.6.0

Updating website

Make changes to the git repo incuding uploading the new artefacts at: https://github.com/boothj5/www_profanity_im
Email boothj5web@gmail.com to get them published to the website

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Release Guide

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