rclone/RELEASE.md

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Extra required software for making a release

  • github-release for uploading packages
  • pandoc for making the html and man pages

Making a release

  • git status - make sure everything is checked in
  • Check travis & appveyor builds are green
  • make check
  • make test # see integration test server or run locally
  • make tag
  • edit docs/content/changelog.md
  • make doc
  • git status - to check for new man pages - git add them
  • git commit -a -v -m "Version v1.XX"
  • make retag
  • Set the GOPATH for a current stable go compiler

  • make cross
  • git checkout docs/content/commands # to undo date changes in commands
  • git push --tags origin master
  • git push --tags origin master:stable # update the stable branch for packager.io
  • Wait for the appveyor and travis builds to complete then fetch the windows binaries from appveyor

  • make fetch_windows
  • make tarball
  • make sign_upload
  • make check_sign
  • make upload
  • make upload_website
  • make upload_github
  • make startdev
  • announce with forum post, twitter post, G+ post

Early in the next release cycle update the vendored dependencies

  • make update
  • git status
  • git add new files
  • carry forward any patches to vendor stuff
  • git commit -a -v

Make the version number be just in a file?