Re: making a release

[Andrew Miloradovsky <miloradovsky gmail com>]

I speak only for myself, but it's hard for me to track the larger
(non-trivial) changes. I need much more verbose explanations to form an
opinion on a larger changes/fixes.

I suppose it would be rather productive to *discuss* the changes a bit
more, not just propose patches that do something, right or not. The
discussion(s) on the  respective Bugzilla thread(s) is not a substitute
for this, often horribly outdated.

Regarding the release itself, it only takes a git tag (and bumping a
number in the tree), and the master branch already contains more changes
than it should have for this release, IMO...

On 06/07/2017 09:46 AM, Ahmed Baïzid wrote:
> ## Plan review
>
> > On 05/03/2017 10:12 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> > > get a few things done before doing the release. Rough checklist:
> > > * actually passes distcheck
> > > * investigate https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782100
> > > * browse the bugtracker and hunt for other reports of the same kind,
> > > all build/compilation issues are good candidates for this step
> > > * check if there are any trivial patches waiting to be pushed
> > > * check if there are dead dependencies that can easily be removed
> > > (e.g. not libgnomecanvas which is not trivial but… do we still have
> > > libgda code with an obsolete version?)
> > > * still passes distcheck
>
> ----
>
> Where are we, where are we going ?
>
> Commit date   | Task
>
>
> [2017-05-14]    1. Pass the distcheck stage of the build process.
> [2017-05-14]    1.1. Bug 782100 passes "./autogen.sh" stage.
> [2017-05-14]    1.2. Bug 782227 passes "make check" stage.
> [2017-05-14]    1.3. Bug 782346 passes "make distcheck" stage.
> [2017-05-07]    1.4. Commit 9a7df13 advances "make distcheck" stage.
>
>                 The outcome is:
>                 ================================================
>                 planner-0.14.6 archives ready for distribution:
>                 planner-0.14.6.tar.gz
>                 ================================================
>                 Congratulations! The task is done.
>
>
>                 2. Install the User Guide
>                 This task was named "Investigate Bug 782100".
>                 1.1 Bug 346247 (Switch to yelp-tools)
>                 1.2 Bug XXXXXX (Recover existing translations)
>                 1.3 Bug XXXXXX (Switch to Mallard)
>
>                 Test case:
>                 $ LANG=eu_ES.utf8 yelp help:planner
>                 $ LANG=es_ES.utf8 planner (and ask for help)
>
>
>                 3. Resolve same build issues
>                 3.1. Bug 703067 (use AX_COMPILER_FLAGS)
>                 3.2. Bug 742998 (add m4/)
>                 3.3. Bug 743091 (AM_CPPFLAGS replaced INCLUDES)
>                 3.4. Bug 747423 (Modernize GTK-Doc)
>                 3.5. Bug 783246 (Predictable Python plug-in)
>
>                 Test case:
>                 The modernized build system does not complain at all.
>
>                 4. Push trivial awaiting list
>                 1.1. Integrate Debian patches
>                 1.2. Integrate Fedora patches
>                 Who can elaborate ?
>
>
>                 5. Remove dead dependencies
>                 Who can elaborate ?
>
>
>                 6. Still passes distcheck
>                 Who can elaborate ?
>
>
>                 7. Check the install stage of the build process.
>                 This is a new task.
>                 7.1. Bug XXXXXX (Localization is not functional)
>                 7.2. Bug XXXXXX (Don't use update-mime-database)
>                 7.3. Bug XXXXXX (Don't use update-desktop-database)
>                 7.4. Bug XXXXXX (Don't use gconftool-2)
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