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@ -2,26 +2,54 @@ The Calamares release process
============================= =============================
#### (0) A week in advance #### (0) A week in advance
* Run Coverity scan, fix what's relevant. * Run [Coverity scan][coverity], fix what's relevant. The Coverity scan runs
automatically once a week on master.
* Build with clang -Weverything, fix what's relevant. * Build with clang -Weverything, fix what's relevant.
```
rm -rf build ; mkdir build ; cd build
CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake .. && make
```
* Make sure all tests pass. * Make sure all tests pass.
* Notify translators. ```
make
make test
```
Note that *all* means all-that-make-sense. The partition-manager tests need
an additional environment variable to be set for some tests, which will
destroy an attached disk. This is not always desirable.
* Notify [translators][transifex]. In the dashboard there is an *Announcements*
link that you can use to send a translation announcement.
[coverity]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/calamares-calamares?tab=overview
[transifex]: https://www.transifex.com/calamares/calamares/dashboard/
#### (1) Preparation #### (1) Preparation
* Check `README.md` and everything in `hacking`, make sure it's all still relevant. * Check `README.md` and everything in `hacking`, make sure it's all still
relevant. Run `hacking/calamaresstyle` to check the C++ code style.
Python code is checked as part of the Travis CI builds.
* Update submodules. * Update submodules.
```
git submodule # Note list of submodules
git submodule update thirdparty/libcrashreporter-qt
```
* Check defaults in `settings.conf` and other configuration files. * Check defaults in `settings.conf` and other configuration files.
* Pull latest translations from Transifex. * Pull latest translations from Transifex. This is done nightly on Jenkins,
so a manual pull is rarely necessary.
* Update the list of enabled translation languages in `CMakeLists.txt`. * Update the list of enabled translation languages in `CMakeLists.txt`.
* Bump version in `CMakeLists.txt`, commit. Check the [translation site][transifex] for the list of languages with
fairly complete translations.
* Bump version in `CMakeLists.txt`, *CALAMARES_VERSION* variables, and set
RC to a non-zero value (e.g. doing -rc1, -rc2, ...). Push that.
#### (2) Tarball #### (2) Tarball
* Create tarball: `../git-archive-all/git-archive-all -v calamares-1.1-rc1.tar.gz` * Create tarball: `git-archive-all -v calamares-1.1-rc1.tar.gz` . Double check
that the tarball matches the version number.
* Test tarball. * Test tarball.
#### (3) Tag #### (3) Tag
* `git tag -s v1.1.0` * `git tag -s v1.1.0` Make sure the signing key is known in GitHub, so that the
* Generate MD5 and SHA1 checksums. tag is shown as a verified tag. Do not sign -rc tags.
* Generate MD5 and SHA256 checksums.
* Upload tarball. * Upload tarball.
* Announce on mailing list, notify packagers. * Announce on mailing list, notify packagers.
* Write release article. * Write release article.