Fossology Release Process (Draft)

The following steps should be taken to produce new Fossology releases:

• Announce candidate release (fossology mailing list) : Template needed
• Create a tag in svn for the release candidate (e.g. tags/rc/0.6.5_rc1) How To
• Check/update INSTALL and INSTALL.multi
• Build deb packages
• Build rpm packages
• Post packages to SourceForge
• external & internal testing cycles with release candidate
  • Install on single test system (internal)
  • Initial sanity tests (internal)
  • Install on multiple test system (internal)
  • Multiple system/integration tests (internal)
• Increment version number in makefile.conf file (svn)
• Update changelog (svn)
• Update schemaspy on fossology.org

• Tag release (svn, remove “rc” label)
  • Coordinate with Matt Taggart for creating the final debian changelog entry and building the official debain packages.
  • Build debian packages for lenny.
• Create initial tarball from svn
• Create unofficial debian packages and place on fossology.org.
• Upload tarball and release notes to Sourceforge release notes are not provided on sourceforge; users are referred to http://fossology.org/release_notes
• Update release notes (Dokuwiki) DONE
  • Document upgrade path from previous version(s)upgrading_from_fossology_1.0.0
  • Bug owners are responsible for documenting any outstanding bug targeted for the release.
  • Update documentation (Dokuwiki, README, etc)
• Create RPMs for RHEL4, RHEL5, CentOS4, CentOS5
  • post to SourceForge
  • add to fossology.org yum repo
• Create RPMs for Fedora 11, 12
  • post to SourceForge
  • add to fossology.org yum repo
• Install on public running instance
• Install on internal hp instance
• Announce release (fossology, fossbazaar) - See sending_email_announcement
• Update fossology.org front page
  • update development status
  • update download page
  • update install page (Mary talk to Adria about simplifying these updates)
• ensure release packages are externally available from the location referred to by the download page