HowTo CTAN

we have a package langsci on CTAN. New TexLive distributions are released in April each year. We should upload a current version in February.

CTAN has no internal structure. All files have to be globally unique and are to be delivered in a zipped folder with no subfolder.

Dates and versions of the files should be given in the header.

We have a repo www.github.com/langsci/CTAN which contains the files currently hosted on CTAN. When preparing a new CTAN release:

• clone this repo
• clone this repo again as read-only
• copy all files from the github.com/langsci/langscibook root directory. The files in unchanged/ can be omitted.
• check whether the sample files in the r/w repo compile with the new files. Amend if necessary. When done, commit and push.
• check whether documentation is current
• commit and push
• adapt the README files and the metadata in file headers
• commit and push
• leave the r/w repo
• pull the read-only repo.
• zip the read-only repo, excluding hidden files like .git/
• upload to CTAN
• move all files in github.com/langsci/langscibook to unchanged/