- Review changelog
I always use the top changelog link on coffeelint.org and change it
to point to compare/vx.x.x...master. Look through the pull request to figure
out whether this is a minor or patch release.
- Tag
CoffeeLint follows semver. When a new rule is added even if it's off by default, it's at least a minor release. There are some things marked deprecated. If we ever have a need for a 2.0 I'll remove those at that time.
npm version <major|minor|patch>
- Write changelog
git checkout gh-pages
The changelog is in index-bottom.html. Update it based on the PRs found in
step 1. I don't always mention every PR. Many internal changes like updates to
Travis don't matter to users of CoffeeLint, so I leave them out.
This next step is going to end up checkout out master, so I'll usually commit
the changelog updates and then I'll run git commit --amend after the next step.
- Update
gh-page's coffeelint
rake update
I've never rewritten how this gets generated. Because it needs to pull a
compiled version of CoffeeLint from master, rake update gives you a set of
commands to copy and paste.
# It doesn't matter if you ammend or add a new commit, this is just what I do.
git commit --amend
- Release all the things!
git checkout master
git push origin master
git push origin gh-pages
git push origin <tag>
I think it's important that people be able to install CoffeeLint directly from
git. People also got upset when the NPM version required installing browserify
and coffeeify when they were never actually used. For this reason I have a
prepublish script that will yank those and the install script out of
package.json. I had this fail to run for me once, so now I run it manually
just to make sure it's fine before I publish.
npm run prepublish
git diff
npm publish
git checkout package.json