Release Checklist

Used by mpm to prepare releases.

Things to check:

Pulled from i18n and crew
Check buildbot
Tagged
Build from dist tarball passes tests
Signed
Pushed
Tarball uploaded
Add Bugzilla version
Ping mercurial-packaging@selenic.com
WhatsNew updated
UpgradeNotes updated with any (BC) notes
tag and push PythonHglib if there are new changesets
Mercurial/NewsItems updated

Release message template:

To:     mercurial <mercurial@selenic.com>
Bcc:    lwn@lwn.net
Subject:        Mercurial 1.x released!

Full details here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

Available for download at:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.x.tar.gz

Binaries releases to follow shortly.

Generating a list of new contributors:

comm -2 -3 <(hg log -r '1.5::' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u) <(hg log -r '::1.5.4' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u)

CategoryProcess

-  ⇤ ← Revision 1 as of 2006-12-08 02:01:20 → 
  Size: 387
  Editor: mpm
  Comment:
+   ← Revision 24 as of 2016-04-16 23:02:19 → ⇥
  Size: 1156
  Editor: mpm
  Comment:
-Deletions are marked like this.
+Additions are marked like this.
 Line 1:
- * Builds and tests correctly
 * Tarball contains all relevant files
 * Build from untar passes tests
 * Version numbers for Mac and Windows installers correct
+<<Include(A:dev)>>

= Release Checklist =

Used by [[mpm]] to prepare releases.

Things to check:
 * Pulled from i18n and crew
 * Check [[https://buildbot.mercurial-scm.org/waterfall|buildbot]]
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+ * Build from dist tarball passes tests
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+ * Pushed
-Line 8:
+Line 15:
- * Release notes complete
 * Upgrade notes complete
 * Distro and platform packagers pinged
 * Wiki updated
 * Announcement sent to lists, LWN, etc., Freshmeat updated
+ * Add [[https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/editversions.cgi?action=add&product=Mercurial|Bugzilla version]]
 * Ping mercurial-packaging@selenic.com
 * WhatsNew updated
 * UpgradeNotes updated with any (BC) notes
 * tag and push PythonHglib if there are new changesets
 * [[Mercurial/NewsItems]] updated
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+Release message template:
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+Line 24:
+{{{
To: 	mercurial <mercurial@selenic.com>
Bcc: 	lwn@lwn.net
Subject: 	Mercurial 1.x released!

Full details here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

Available for download at:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.x.tar.gz

Binaries releases to follow shortly.

}}}

Generating a list of new contributors:

{{{
comm -2 -3 <(hg log -r '1.5::' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u) <(hg log -r '::1.5.4' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort -u) 
}}}

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