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* Tahoe Release Checklist [0/19]

  • [ ] NEWS.rst: summarize user-visible changes, aim for one page of text
  • [ ] update doc files
    • NEWS.rst: Add final release name and date to top-most item in NEWS.
    • relnotes.txt
    • CREDITS
    • docs/known_issues.rst
  • [ ] change docs/quickstart.rst to point to just the current allmydata-tahoe-X.Y.Z.zip source code file, or else to point to a directory which contains only allmydata-tahoe-X.Y.Z.* source code files
  • [ ] git pull
  • [ ] git tag allmydata-tahoe-X.Y.Z
  • [ ] build locally to make sure the release is reporting itself as the intended version
  • [ ] make sure buildbot is green
  • [ ] make sure other people aren’t committing at that moment
  • [ ] push tag to trigger buildslaves. Making a code change is no longer necessary
    • git push official master TAGNAME
    • that will build tarballs
  • [ ] make sure buildbot is green
  • [ ] make sure a sumo sdist tarball got built and uploaded properly
  • [ ] download tarballs, sign with “gpg -ba -u 68666a7a TAR”, upload *.asc
  • [ ] symlink the release tarball on tahoe-lafs.org: var/www/source/tahoe-lafs/releases
  • [ ] update Wiki: front page news, news, old news, parade of release notes
  • [ ] send out relnotes.txt:
    • modify to include hashes of tarballs, git revision
    • GPG-sign the email
    • send to tahoe-announce@tahoe-lafs.org and tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org
  • [ ] update https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/
  • [ ] update pypi:
    • python setup.py register
    • login to pypi
    • manually upload .tar.gz tarball and .asc signature (so they match the ones on tahoe-lafs.org)
  • [ ] close the Milestone on the trac Roadmap
  • [ ] make an “announcement of new release” on freshmeat
  • [ ] make an “announcement of new release” on launchpad
  • [ ] send out relnotes.txt to:
    • p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com
    • lwn@lwn.net
    • a Google+ page
    • cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org
    • cryptography@metzdown.com
    • cryptography@randombit.net
    • twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com
    • owncloud@kde.org
    • liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
    • the “decentralization” group on groups.yahoo.com
    • pycrypto mailing list
    • fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
    • fuse-sshfs@lists.sourceforge.net
    • duplicity-talk@nongnu.org
    • news@phoronix.com
    • python-list@python.org
    • cygwin@cygwin.com
    • The Boulder Linux Users’ Group
    • The Boulder Hackerspace mailing list
    • cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com
    • tiddlywiki
    • hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org
    • bzr
    • mercurial
    • http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/
    • deltacloud
    • libcloud
    • swift@lists.launchpad.net
    • stephen@fosketts.net
    • Chris Mellor of The Register
    • nosql@mypopescu.com
    • The H Open
    • fans/customers of cleversafe
    • fans/customers of bitcasa
    • fans/customers of wuala
    • fans/customers of spideroak