Re: Who does 2.12 Beta 2

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:29 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 7/28/05, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > Would someone else like to do the 2.12 Beta 2 release on August 10th
> > (tarballs due August 8th)? I'll be away from home at that time, and I'd
> > like us to take turns anyway.
> 
> Well, I had volunteered to help with this last one, but I guess due to
> timezone differences and all that it didn't really happen.  I think my
> reading of the release_scripts and tweaking/documenting of them gave
> me most the information, but could I get an overview/clarification
> from you on the necessary steps?
> 
> My understanding of the steps so far:
>   - Find out all the tarballs that are going to be in the release[1]
>   - Find all the external dependency tarballs[1]
>   - Build the entire set with garnome or jhbuild or whatever[2]
>   - Create an updated versions file (releng/tools/versions in cvs)[1]
>   - Log into window
>   - Put the perl tarballs into a perl/ subdirectory of where-ever you're running
>     from
>   - Run releng/tools/release_set_scripts/release-suites using the updated
>     versions file
>   - Run releng/tools/release_set_scripts/release-news for each of the release
>     sets (desktop, platform, bindings) comparing the current release to the old
>     one and save the output
>   - Manually copy the NEWS output to the appropriate directory
>   - Announce the release to devel-announce-list.  Find someone to approve the
>     email so it's not stuck in the queue.

Yeah, and run the signal-ftp-sync script.

> Also, I noticed you used metacity-2.11.0 instead of metacity-2.11.1
> for the 2.11.90 release--any specific reasons, or just the expected
> "it's a royal pain in the butt to update all versions and there are
> errors when doing it by hand"?

Regular human error, I'm afraid.

> 
> Thanks,
> Elijah
> 
> [1] I'm really messed up on the versions thing.  Why does
> releng/tools/versions include some freedesktop.org stuff (e.g.
> libxklavier and startup-notification)--aren't those external tarballs?
>  (If not, why are they included when cairo isn't?)  Follow-up
> question--why is startup-notification on the list of modules on the
> wiki (note: libxklavier and cairo are not)?

Not sure.

> [2] Any hints here in the steps needed to modify garnome would be appreciated.

I figure out what's new by looking at ftp-release lists, but your new
update-versions scripts is much better for that. If you're lucky, the
latest garnome is almost up-to-date anyway.

Then I change the version numbers in the garnome Makefile files. Then I
run "make makesum" to update all the checksums from the downloaded files
Then I run make from inside desktop/.

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