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How to make an MPlayer release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ preparations: - Announce the intent to create a release branch on mailing lists and IRC. - Ask translators to get their languages synchronized. - Update the Changelog. - Identify regressions or other serious issues, fix or revert (on the branch) as needed so the release is of good quality. - Find a codename for the release create the release tree: - tag Subversion with release name - Add a VERSION file with the release version to the root of the source tree. - update release.sh script with version number ***the following steps are done automatically by release.sh script*** - checkout the mplayer src tree - check out FFmpeg subdirs - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files - build the HTML docs from XML sources, then clean up: make html-chunked; make releaseclean release the tree: cd .. mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar ***end of part done by release.sh** test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run) - compilers: gcc 4.x, gcc 3.x, gcc 2.95, MinGW, Cygwin - architectures: PPC, AMD64, x86 with MMX[2], SSE[2], 3DNow - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X copy to FTP: cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/ cp Changelog-0.90rc5 and update Changelog symlink md5sum MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 > MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2.md5 Write a news entry for the release, update the links in dload.html. Test it, sometimes links are broken. Do not forget the translations. Send the release notes as a mail to the mplayer-announce mailing list. Add the new release version to bugzilla page. Update release version in #mplayer and #mplayerdev topics. Update project page on Freshmeat Done.