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12781 | 1 How to make an MPlayer release |
10389 | 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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4 preparations: | |
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5 - Announce release target date on dev-eng and #mplayerdev |
12781 | 6 - Ask the DOCS maintainers to commit their final changes, check if |
12850 | 7 all docs are up to date, etc. |
12781 | 8 - Verify man page, remove obsolete options, mention new ones. |
9 - Ask translation maintainers to update their help_mp*.h file. | |
12850 | 10 - Update the ChangeLog file (according to CVS log), ask other developers |
11 to verify their parts, etc. Ask Diego to spellcheck it. | |
12781 | 12 - Consult at -dev-eng about unstable parts of the code which should be |
13 disabled for the release. | |
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14 - Find a codename for the release |
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16 create the release tree: | |
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17 - tag cvs with release name |
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18 - update release.sh script with version number |
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19 ***the following steps are done automatically by release.sh script*** |
10389 | 20 - cvs checkout the mplayer src tree |
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21 - check out libavcodec and libavformat from FFmpeg CVS |
12781 | 22 - remove the CVS subdirs: |
23 find main -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \; | |
10389 | 24 - remove the .cvsignore files: |
12781 | 25 find main -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} \; |
10389 | 26 - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files |
27 - replace version.sh with this (change version number too...): | |
12781 | 28 |
10389 | 29 ============ |
30 #!/bin/sh | |
12781 | 31 echo "#define VERSION \"1.0pre5-$1 \"" > version.h |
10389 | 32 ============ |
33 | |
15231 | 34 - build the HTML docs from XML sources, then clean up: |
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35 make html-chunked; make releaseclean |
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10389 | 37 release the tree: |
38 cd .. | |
39 mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5 | |
40 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5 | |
41 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar | |
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42 ***end of part done by release.sh** |
10389 | 43 |
44 test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run) | |
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45 - compilers: gcc 3, gcc 2.95, mingw, cygwin |
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46 - architectures: PPC, AMD64, x86 with MMX[2], SSE[2], 3DNow |
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47 - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS X |
10389 | 48 |
12781 | 49 copy to FTP: |
10389 | 50 cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/ |
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51 cp ChangeLog-0.90rc5 and update ChangeLog symlink |
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52 md5sum MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 > MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2.md5 |
10389 | 53 |
54 move the older (pre)release(s) (except the last one before the current one) | |
12781 | 55 to ../OLD_stuff/ dir |
10389 | 56 |
12781 | 57 Somehow get Diego to write a news entry for the release, and update the |
58 source file of dload.html and commit it. Test it, it's sometimes buggy | |
15207 | 59 (broken links etc). Also, update translated versions of dload.html. |
10389 | 60 |
14271 | 61 Send a message to mplayer-announce mailing list. |
62 | |
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63 Add the new release version to bugzilla page. |
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15207 | 65 Update release version in #mplayer topic |
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67 Update project page on Freshmeat |
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12781 | 69 Done. |
10389 | 70 |