PreparingReleaseAndPatch

Prepare a MarkUs Release

1. Run tests on PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases
2. Make sure app/MARKUS_VERSION is updated
3. Make sure Changelog gets updated.
4. Make sure INSTALL is up-to-date in the repository and a most recent version is exported on markusproject.org (i.e. /path/to/www/INSTALL)
5. If it is possible, run bundle exec rake i18n:missing_keys and add them to locales (you can keep the english key if you don't know how to translate it.) It will avoid missing locales errors.
6. Make sure [deployment instructions](wiki:InstallProdStable) match latest requirements
7. Make sure a tag gets created for the according release
8. Make sure a branch for the minor version number (0.7.x for 0.7.0) gets created and pushed
9. Prepare the archive (see below)
10. Prepare a patch for micro release updates.
11. Upload patch and archive
12. Update latest-stable symlink in /download directory on markusproject.org
13. Update index.html on markusproject.org and release note (blog.markusproject.org)

Prepare the tar archive from the Git tree

$ git checkout <branchname>
$ git log
$ git archive --format=tar -o markus-<version-number> --prefix=markus-<version-number>/ refs/tags/<markus-version-number>
$ gzip markus-<version-number>.tar

Prepare a patch from Git

$ git diff refs/tags/<markus-version> refs/tags/<markus-version> > markus-<markus-version>.patch

This will generate a Git style patch. Apply it by:

$ cd path/to/markus/root && patch -p1 < path/to/patch