Lazarus 0.9.26 release plan

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers (Vincent)
• Add LazTarget (0.9.28) to the mantis, so we can postpone issues one release.

Before tagging

• <s>Informally announce (IRC, mailing list) a pending release (+/- week before actual release), so that people can test for regressions (Vincent)</s>
  • <s>Blog posts (Vincent)</s>
  • <s>Email to lazarus list (Paul)</s>

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

• <s>A list of bugs with target 0.9.26.</s>

Tagging release

• <s>Set release version in trunk (Vincent)</s>
  • <s>lazarus/ide/version.inc</s>
  • <s>lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas</s>
  • <s>lazarus/debian/changelog</s>
• <s>Tag trunk to tags/release_0_9_26 (Vincent)</s>
• <s>Increase version number in trunk to 0_9_27(Vincent)</s>

Building and uploading release

Building

• <s>source</s> (Mattias)
• <s>win32</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win32 based on qt</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win32 for arm-wince</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win64</s> (Vincent)
• <s>linux source rpm</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux i386 rpm</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux x86_64 rpm</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux i386 deb</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux x86_64 deb</s> (Mattias)
• <s>Mac OS X powerpc</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Mac OS X i386</s>( Vincent)

Uploading

• <s>Ubuntu repo i386</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Ubuntu repo x86_64</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Set file releases from Hidden to Active on SourceForge and send email to people monitoring the package</s> (Vincent)

Announcements

• <s>Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints</s> (Mattias)
• <s>List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.26 release notes</s> (Mattias)
• <s>Mailing lists</s> (Mattias)
• <s>News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Sourceforge</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Freshmeat</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Change IRC topic</s> (Marc)
• <s>New versions in Mantis</s> (Vincent)

After release

• <s>Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Create fixes branch</s> (Vincent)

Further

• Relax (all)
• Plan next release (Paul)

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