Re: [Notion-devel] Release

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

Hello,

Given that the response on the release candidate was mostly positive and only
some small improvements have been made, I think we can start doing an 1.0 
release Real Soon Now. 

There will always be 'things that would be nice to do before releasing', but 
Notion as it stands right now appears to be a working product with a few 
improvements and no regressions with respect to the original ion3.

I've quickly put together a rough release procedure at 
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Development#Release_procedure :

    commit and push everything :)
    write a changelog
    perform a fresh checkout and run 'predist.sh'
    verify building from source works
    verify building from source works with PRELOAD_MODULES=1 in system.mk
    build the release source .tar.gz en .tar.bz2
        do we also want to release binary packages? I don't really think so.
    tag the release in git
    upload to sf.net
    announce on mailinglist
    announce on freshmeat.net
    announce to packagers/distributions:
        Solaris: Jeff Sipek
        Arch: Sergej Pupykin
        Debian: file an RFP
        Ubuntu: ?
        RedHat/Fedora: ?
        OpenSUSE: ?
        Slackware: ? 

As for the packaging for various distributions, I think it would make sense to
contact the packagers that did the original ion3 packages, if there were any.

Did I miss anything? Anyone care to fill in some blanks? Start on the 
announcement text and perhaps the changelog?


Kind regards,

Arnout

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:14:44AM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:55:20PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, all release-critical bugs are now resolved - 
> > except for https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3414775&group_id=314802&atid=1324528
> 
> Looks like that was a false alarm, so we're just about good to go.
> 
> It'd be great if some people could test the .tar.gz I uploaded to sf.net today,
> as a sort of alpha release candidate.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Arnout
> 
> 
> > When we're confident that's either not a problem in Notion or fixed, we should
> > do a release with all the proper PR fanfare. 
> > 
> > Hopefully this should also attract some new users, so we should be ready to 
> > respond to questions, feedback and problems on the mailinglists and elsewhere.
> > I'll be less available from now until approx. october 18th, so I think we 
> > should do the release shortly after that.
> > 
> > In the mean time, I've uploaded a new source snapshot tarball to sf.net, 
> > perhaps you can use that for now?
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Arnout
> > 
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