[Zope3-dev] Re: Release process closure

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:44:21PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> I'd really like to get to closure on the current approved release process. 
>>> Philipp, would you mind separating the release process into a separate 
>>> file?  Or do you mind if I do it?
>> Done: 
>> http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Sandbox/philikon/foundation/releasing-software.txt
> 
> Isn't step 4 redundant?  I assume "the changelog" refers to CHANGES.txt
> in step 2:
> 
>   2. Update the changelog to note the release date.  Make sure the
>      changelog is complete.
>   <...>
>   4. Fill in the release date in ``CHANGES.txt``.

Yes, they're redundant. Thanks for noticing :).


> Step 6.3: "python setup.py register sdist upload", should we assume that
> everyone will have a fixed version of setuptools installed, or should we
> recommend that people making the sdist on Windows system force the
> package format to tar.gz to avoid the unpleasantness with \r\n line
> endings in SOURCES.txt causing some files to not get extracted on POSIX
> systems?
> 
> Purely formatting matter: the indentation of step 6 is inconsistent:
> 
>   6. Get a separate checkout of the release tag for creating the
>      distribution tarball and eggs.  It is important that you don't do
>      this on the trunk or release branch to avoid
>   <snip indented list here>
>     In the checkout of the tag perform the following steps:
>   <...>
> 
> Also, there are two steps numbered 6:
> 
>   6. Back on the trunk or the release branch, increase the version
>      number in ``setup.py`` to the *next* release while preserving the
>   <...>

Thanks. Fixed now.


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