[Checkins] SVN: zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst updated

[Andreas Jung]

Log message for revision 108099:
  updated
  

Changed:
  U   zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst

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Modified: zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst
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--- zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst	2010-01-13 05:53:05 UTC (rev 108098)
+++ zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst	2010-01-13 06:57:27 UTC (rev 108099)
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 
 - update docs/CHANGES.rst
 
+- run all tests::
+
+   bin/alltests 
+
 - tag the release
 
 - upload the tagged release to PyPI 
@@ -51,9 +55,40 @@
      
     /var/zope/zope2index/bin/z2_kgs tags/2.12.2 /var/www/download.zope.org/Zope2/index/2.12.2
 
+- update the version tag for the autogenerated documenation of the releases notes for docs.zope.org::
+
+    svn propedit svn:externals svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope2docs/trunk/releases
+
 - update version information on zope2.zope.org
 
   - login on https://zope2.zope.org into the Plone site  
 
+Pre-Zope 2.12 release process
+-----------------------------
 
+- update version information:
 
+  - setup.py
+  - inst/versions.py
+  - inst/WinBuilders/mk/zope.mk
+
+- run all tests::
+
+      ./configure --with-python=/path/to/python2.4
+      make
+      bin/instance test 
+
+- create a source release::
+
+      ./configure --with-python=/path/to/python2.4
+      make sdist
+ 
+- create a software release package under www.zope.org/Products/Zope and 
+  upload the source release as release file
+
+- update the metadata of the release package (copy & paste from a former release)
+
+- create a file CHANGES.txt with the related release notes
+
+- send out a notification email 
+