Release

OBSOLETE: See https://github.com/log4cplus/log4cplus/wiki/Release-Procedure instead.

• Release Procedure

Release Procedure

This describes log4cplus release procedure:

1. Update ChangeLog file with worthy changes.

2. Make sure that version information in version.h and configure.ac is up to date. Run scripts/propagate-version.sh followed by scripts/doautoreconf.sh. Do not forget to commit the changes.

3. Run scripts/prepare_dist_from_bzr.sh to prepare tarballs.

4. Upload tarballs to SourceForge.

5. Send announcement to log4cplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

6. Tag revision on branch.

7. Write news entry to SourceForge.

8. Use Pandoc with parameters --smart --standalone -f markdown -t markdown_strict+hard_line_breaks-intraword_underscores to generate a version of README file with Markdown compatible with SourceForge’s wiki. Upload resulting file to project’s SourceForge wiki page using the scripts/upload_to_wiki.pl script.

9. Post release information to G+ log4cplus page and share it with the log4cplus community.