Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of WebKitGTK/Releasing

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2013 12:46:31 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Carlos Garcia Campos

Comment:

Update release instructions

WebKitGTK/Releasing

@@ -44 +44 @@
  * Check that the bots are not horribly broken and run the layout tests locally and see that they are in reasonably good health
 
-
 == 3. Make the release ==
  * `make distcheck` should have created tarball in the build directory. Upload it to petibonum.igalia.com. 
- * Update the website to add the annoucement and download link
+ * Update or clone the [https://gitorious.org/webkitgtk/webkitgtkdotorg/ webkitgtkdotorg repository] and run webkit-release script with the new tarball
+{{{
+./webkit-release release --host=<host-to-upload-the-tarball> webkitgtk-X.Y.Z.tar.xz
+}}}
+ * Check the commit generated by webkit-release script and push it.
  * Tag the release using the command:
 {{{
@@ -54 +57 @@
 
 == 4. After the release ==
- * Update the API documentation (FIXME: how?)
- * Send a message to announce the new release to webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org with CC: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org. You can use previous announcements as a template.
+ * Send a message to announce the new release to webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org with CC: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org if you didn't use the -n option of webkit-release script, you can copy and paste the text announcement from the webkit-release output.
  * Update the WebKitGTK+ entry of the current moduleset in jhbuild repository
  * Update the IRC topic message
- * Suggestions:
-   * Update [wiki:WebKitGTK/StartHacking#Developmentbranchesanddependencies]
-   * Dependencies are not listed in the official page. Maybe it would be worthy to add them also somewhere there or just add it to the published NEWS messages as in: 
-      * http://webkitgtk.org/2013/07/20/webkitgtk2.0.4-released.html
-      * https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2013-July/001525.html