Mercurial > emacs
changeset 77484:d7dd3448e6d3
Add note about cutting the branch.
| author | Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> |
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| date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:26:05 +0000 |
| parents | 4e301997132f |
| children | 56922330ce5c |
| files | admin/make-tarball.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt Tue Apr 24 21:15:28 2007 +0000 +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt Wed Apr 25 01:26:05 2007 +0000 @@ -76,7 +76,24 @@ 14. For a pretest, let Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> know about the new pretest and tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>. - For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself, + +> If no major problems with the April 16 pretest come to light, we +> should cut the Emacs 22 CVS branch on Friday, April 20, and release +> Emacs 22.1 on Monday, April 23. + +15. Shortly before the release, cut the branch with the following commands: + + cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE + cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE + +where `NUMBER' is the major version number of the release. This makes it +easier to see what changes have been applied to the branch with: + + cvs diff -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC + +or merge changes back to the trunk with "cvs update -j", if necessary. + +16. For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself, possibly starting from a previous announcment. # arch-tag: c23c771f-ca26-4584-8a04-50ecf0989390