annotate DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt @ 24744:d81eef9beb1b

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date Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:14:39 +0000
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1 How to make an MPlayer release
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2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3
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4 preparations:
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5 - Announce release target date on dev-eng and #mplayerdev
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6 - Ask the DOCS maintainers to commit their final changes, check if
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7 all docs are up to date, etc.
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8 - Verify man page, remove obsolete options, mention new ones.
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9 - Ask translation maintainers to update their help_mp*.h file.
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10 - Update the ChangeLog file (according to CVS log), ask other developers
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11 to verify their parts, etc. Ask Diego to spellcheck it.
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12 - Consult at -dev-eng about unstable parts of the code which should be
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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***
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20 - cvs checkout the mplayer src tree
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21 - check out libavcodec and libavformat from FFmpeg CVS
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22 - remove the CVS subdirs:
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23 find main -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;
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24 - remove the .cvsignore files:
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25 find main -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} \;
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26 - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files
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27 - replace version.sh with this (change version number too...):
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29 ============
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30 #!/bin/sh
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31 echo "#define VERSION \"1.0pre5-$1 \"" > version.h
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32 ============
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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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36
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37 release the tree:
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38 cd ..
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39 mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5
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40 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5
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41 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar
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42 ***end of part done by release.sh**
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43
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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
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49 copy to FTP:
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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
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54 move the older (pre)release(s) (except the last one before the current one)
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55 to ../OLD_stuff/ dir
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57 Somehow get Diego to write a news entry for the release, and update the
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58 source file of dload.html and commit it. Test it, it's sometimes buggy
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59 (broken links etc). Also, update translated versions of dload.html.
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61 Send a message to mplayer-announce mailing list.
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63 Add the new release version to bugzilla page.
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65 Update release version in #mplayer topic
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67 Update project page on Freshmeat
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69 Done.
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