How to do a release of the Akonadi server? I ask that myself and then Tom every time I have to do it. So, finally document that here.
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Run the makechangelog script in the source directory (which either is trunk or branches/akonadi/<version> depending on if you are doing a major (pre-)release or a minor one):
sh makechangelog
That will add all revisions since the last time to the ChangeLog file.
Next step is to update the NEWS file, run svn diff ChangeLog and summarize the changes for that.
Finally, update the version number in the top-level CMakeLists.txt and commit all your changes.
Tagging a major (pre-)release, i.e. a release from master is done with the following commands:
git checkout master
git tag vx.y.z
git push
git push --tags
For a stable release, that is a release from a stable branch, the command looks like this:
git checkout x.y
git tag vx.y.z
git push
git push --tags
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It might also be needed to update the latest kdesupport-for-4.x tag with the new release. Use the following commands for that:
svn rm $SVNPROTOCOL://$SVNUSER@svn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/kdesupport-for-4.x/akonadi
svn cp $SVNPROTOCOL://$SVNUSER@svn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/akonadi/x.y.z $SVNPROTOCOL://$SVNUSER@svn.kde.org/home/kde/tags/kdesupport-for-4.x/akonadi
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A new stable branch is created by the following command:
svn cp $SVNPROTOCOL://$SVNUSER@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/akonadi $SVNPROTOCOL://$SVNUSER@svn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/akonadi/x.y
Afterwards perform the following steps:
Run the following command to create the tarball:
git archive --format=tar --prefix=akonadi-x.y.z/ vx.y.z | bzip2 -9 > akonadi-x.y.z.tar.bz2
Upload the tarball somewhere and notify Tom or Volker to move it to http://download.akonadi-project.org/ (unless you are one of those two, then upload directly).
Log into http://bugs.kde.org/, chose Edit Products -> Akonadi -> Add version and add the version you just released.
Update channel topic on #akonadi.
TODO
Finally, apologize to Dirk for being late again with the release ;-)
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