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How to prepare a release
update the locally maintained translation(s)
Run make update-po, then find which **/po/*.po files are
maintained locally (see the MAINTAINERS file), then edit and
commit those.
sync translations from translationproject
Run make pull-translations or manually run in the toplevel
directory (of which po/ is a subdirectory)
rsync -Lrtvz translationproject.org::tp/latest/libgphoto2/ po
rsync -Lrtvz translationproject.org::tp/latest/libgphoto2_port/ libgphoto2_port/po
If gphoto2 is released too:
rsync -Lrtvz translationproject.org::tp/latest/gphoto2/ po
For each updated '**/po/*.po' file, use
git commit LANG.po --author="Last translator from the po file"
to make it clear who did the change.
sync music-players.h from libmtp
We ship the music-players.h file from libmtp to give additional
device support for distributions that might update libmtp less
frequently.
Copy over from libmtp and commit.
test cameras
Run: make check
In the gphoto2 checkout I am running perl tests/testcamera.pl for
several cameras that might have been affected by the current
release.
update libtool library version(s), hopefully keeping the soname(s)
Ensure the libtool library version (from which the soname is derived) have been updated relative to the last release.
- LIBGPHOTO2_{AGE,REVISION,CURRENT} in configure.ac and
- LIBGPHOTO2_PORT_{AGE,REVISION,CURRENT} in libgphoto2_port/configure.ac
If no functions have been added since the last release, incrementing *_REVISION will do.
If functions have been added since the last release, update _AGE and _CHANGES and reset _REVISION to 0.
If functions have been removed, a lot of other work results besides updating the libtool library version.
update NEWS
git diff libgphoto2-2\_5\_21-release.. | less
summarize changes
tag release
bump version in configure.ac, NEWS, commit and push.
make clean
make
sudo make install
build and sign release ŧarballs
make distcheck
this builds .gz, .bz2 and .xz tarballs currently.
GPG detach sign:
gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.bz2
gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.gz
gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.xz
this will create .asc files alongside the tarballs.
Similar when doing the gphoto2 release.
tag git
Do old style and new style GIT tagging (new style for github largely)
git tag libgphoto2-2\_5\_27-release
git tag v2.5.27
git push --tags
create a README for sourceforge
Paste the NEWS blob from this release into README for uploading.
SF upload
Create a new folder below libgphoto2 with the release number in it (Add Folder).
Inside that "Add File" of the tarballs, the .asc files and the README.
After upload, select "Info" on the .tar.bz2 tarball, and "Select All" for the Default download.
This will make it point the "default download" link to this tarball.
If you are uploading gphoto2, do the same ... but do not select it for the default download.
Github tagging
https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/releases
"Draft a new release"
Select the new release tag. Name is "2.5.27 release",
paste in the NEWS blob into the textfield.
Edit the website
index.php
Use a entry similar to the current ones. Drop older ones occasionally.
news/index.php
Paste in the NEWS blob, htmlify with h2 - h3 and ul/li lists, same as the ones before
proj/libgphoto2/support.php
Adjust the date (env LANG=C date).
Adjust the gphoto2 --version blob (env LANG=C gphoto2 --version). Make sure you have the correct versions in there.
Replace the table with fresh output of:
/usr/lib64/libgphoto2/print-camera-list html
Upload via sftp
see upload.sh ... html tree starts below htdocs/ on the server.
Do not forget to "svn ci" the changes.
Verify website.
Check the pages render OK and no HTML error was introduced.
Announce to mailing list
Write a summary email to gphoto-user@lists.sourceforge.net, gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
Add download links to either SF or GITHUB.
Announce to freshcode.club
https://freshcode.club/, look for libgphoto2
Fill out the "New release" form. It is pretty straight forward. As text use the NEWS blob again.
Same for gphoto2.
Announce to twitter / facebook / etc.
e.g.:
I have just released libgphoto2 2.5.22 ( http://gphoto.org/news/ ) ... Fixed Canon EOS M and PowerShot SX capture, added Sony Alpha RX0 and RX100M5A, added Canon EOS R, and some bugfixes.
change IRC topic of #gphoto in libera.chat
/msg Chanserv topic #gphoto Digital cameras for Linux/UNIX/MacOS | http://gphoto.org/ | just ask | no webcams | newest 2.5.27
Announce to translation project
See https://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html
Write an email to coordinator@translationproject.org
Subject: libgphoto2-2.5.28.pot
Hi,
libgphoto2 and libgphoto2_port translations domains are updated to 2.5.28.
Download location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/libgphoto/2.5.28/libgphoto2-2.5.28.tar.bz2/download
Also gphoto2 was updated to 2.5.28:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/gphoto/2.5.28/gphoto2-2.5.28.tar.bz2/download
Ciao, Marcus
Ciao, Marcus
Prepare git repo for further development
Rev NEWS and configure.ac versions to 2.5.27.1 devel release.