Lazarus 0.9.28 release plan

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers (Vincent)
• Add LazTarget (0.9.30) 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 </s> (Vincent)
• <s>Create fixes_0_9_28 branch for the final fixes before tagging</s> (Vincent)

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

• <s>A list of bugs with target 0.9.28.</s>

Tagging release

• <s>Set release version in fixes_0_9_28</s> (Vincent)
  • <s>lazarus/ide/version.inc
  • lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
  • lazarus/debian/changelog
  • lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist</s>
• <s>Tag fixes_0_9_28 to tags/release_0_9_28</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Increase version number in fixes to 0.9.28.1</s> (Vincent)

Building and uploading release

Building

• <s>source</s> (Vincent)
• <s>html docs</s> (Vincent)
• <s>chm docs</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win32</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win32 for arm-wince</s> (Vincent)
• <s>win64</s> (Vincent)
• <s>linux source rpm</s> (Joost)
• <s>linux i386 rpm</s> (Joost)
  • <s>crosswin32 rpm</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux x86_64 rpm</s> (Joost)
• <s>linux i386 deb</s> (Vincent)
  • <s>crosswin32 deb</s> (Mattias)
• <s>linux x86_64 deb</s> (Vincent)
• <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>Move files from their temporary location (/home/pfs/project/l/la/lazarus/OldFiles/0.9.28) to the actual visual location in the SourceForge File Release System</s> (Vincent)
• <s>Mac OS X: fink unstable tree</s> (Michael)

Announcements

• <s>Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints</s> (Mattias)
  • <s>Installing Lazarus</s>
• <s>List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.28 release notes</s> (Mattias)
• <s>Mailing lists<s> (Mattias)
• <s>News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org</s> (Mattias)
• <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)

Further

• <s>Relax></s> (all)
• <s>Plan next release</s> (Paul)

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