Prepare

The tests can run a very long time. While you're waiting, go back to your other shell window and prepare what you can on the assumption that the tests will succeed.

Download SCons Home

From within your base directory, run these commands:

$ svn co $SVN/scons.org
$ cd scons.org

The scons.org checkout is pretty large. If you don't want to wait, open another shell window and proceed. Make sure the new shell is set up with the SVN and VERSION shell variables as described above.

Prepare Blurb

Prepare the blurb by starting with a copy of build/scons/RELEASE.txt. It should be pretty much good-to-go, but look over it and see if there are any changes that should be made to make it more suitable as a blurb rather than release notes in a distribution. In general, use your own judgment as to what to keep and what to cut. FIXME HTML copy of blurb by inserting <br/><br/><br/> instead of double blank lines, <br/><br/> instead of single blank lines, and <br/> in front of items in a list. Not perfect, but more readable. FIXME Source of beta and final blurbs are different.

Prepare Tigris Announcement

Note that these files must be checked in to the trunk for them to show up on our tigris.org project pages; you can not update and commit these files from the directory in which you built the packages. From within the www subdirectory of your trunk directory, edit these files:

File	Information
project_highlights.html	Add a short highlight announcement that will appear at the top of all of the scons.tigris.org pages. Trim the list to remove any entries that are now obsolete.
roadmap.html	Update the text at the top to reflect that this release is now the latest available release.

Prepare scons.org

If you opened another window to do the prep above, move back to the window downloading scons.org; it should be done by now. If you didn't, change back to the scons.org subdirectory of your base directory.

Web site

Make the following changes to the following files: FIXME The destination names aren't CHANGES.txt or RELEASE.txt and the explanation needs to be tweaked. And the source for RELEASE.txt could be either RELEASE.txt or Announce.txt.

File	Action
CHANGES.txt	copy the new file from build/scons/CHANGES.txt in your packaging directory
RELEASE.txt	copy the new file from build/scons/RELEASE.txt in your packaging directory
includes/versions.php	update $latestrelease to the value $VERSION FIXME
add the new version number to the $docversions[] list
add the new version number to the $apiversions[] list
index.php	add an announcement for the home page
remove any out-of-date announcements
news-raw.xhtml	add an announcement to the list (duplicate it from what you just added to index.php)

Install documentation

To unpack the release documentation into where it can be used by the web pages, just run this script:

FIXME When this script is checked in, it will allow arguments on the command line $ sh bin/FillMeIn [ $VERSION [ $SVN ] ] or something similar. In the meantime, copy the script and run it.

  mkdir doc/$VERSION
  (cd doc/$VERSION && tar zxf build/dist/scons-doc-$RELEASE.tar.gz)
  svn add doc/$VERSION
  (cd doc && rm -f latest && ln -s $VERSION latest)
  case $VERSION in *.0.final.*)
      # This is a 'final' release on the main branch
      (cd doc && rm -f production && ln -s $VERSION production)
  esac

FIXME If any of the candidate packages fail, fix the problem in trunk following your usual development practices and go and do another dry run.