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This document describes the processes for making and announcing a Bazaar
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release, and managing the release process. This is just one phase of the
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`overall development cycle <cycle.html>`_, but it's the most complex part.
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This document gives a checklist you can follow from start to end in one
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Preparing the tree for release
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.. Was previously at http://bazaar-vcs.org/ReleaseChecklist
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#. Make a local branch for preparing this release. (Only for the first
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release in a series, otherwise you should already have a branch.) ::
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bzr branch trunk prepare-1.14
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#. Download the pqm plugin and install it into your ``~/.bazaar/plugins``::
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#. Configure pqm-submit for this branch, with a section like this in
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``~/.bazaar/locations.conf``::
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[/home/mbp/bzr/prepare-1.14]
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pqm_email = Canonical PQM <pqm@bazaar-vcs.org>
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submit_branch = http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.1.14
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public_branch = http://bazaar.your-domain.com/bzr
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submit_to = bazaar@lists.canonical.com
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smtp_server = mail.your-domain.com:25
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Please see <http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/developers/HACKING.html#an-overview-of-pqm>
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for more details on PQM
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#. In the release branch, update ``version_info`` in ``./bzrlib/__init__.py``.
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the output of ``bzr --version``.
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#. Add the date and release number to ``./NEWS``
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#. Summarize into one or two paragraphs what's new in this release.
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#. Commit these changes to the release branch, using a command like::
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The diff before you commit will be something like::
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=== modified file 'NEWS'
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--- NEWS 2008-09-17 23:09:18 +0000
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+This release includes many bug fixes and a few performance and feature
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+improvements. ``bzr rm`` will now scan for missing files and remove them,
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+like how ``bzr add`` scans for unknown files and adds them. A bit more
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+polish has been applied to the stacking code. The b-tree indexing code has
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+been brought in, with an eye on using it in a future repository format.
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+There are only minor installer changes since bzr-1.7rc2.
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=== modified file 'bzrlib/__init__.py'
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# Python version 2.0 is (2, 0, 0, 'final', 0)." Additionally we use a
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-version_info = (1, 7, 0, 'candidate', 2)
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# API compatibility version: bzrlib is currently API compatible with 1.7.
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#. Tag the new release::
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#. Push those changes to a bzr reposistory that is public and accessible on
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the Internet. PQM will pull from this repository when it attempts to merge
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your changes. Then submit those changes to PQM for merge into the
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appropriate release branch::
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bzr pqm-submit -m "(mbp) prepare 1.14"
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Making the source tarball
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#. Change into the source directory and run ::
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Now you have the releasable product. The next step is making it
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#. Within that release, upload the source tarball and zipfile and the GPG
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signature. Or, if you prefer, use the
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``tools/packaging/lp-upload-release`` script to do this.
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#. Link from http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download to the tarball and signature.
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``bazaar`` lists. For final releases, it should also be cc'd to
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``info-gnu@gnu.org``, ``python-announce-list@python.org``,
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``bug-directory@gnu.org``. In both cases, it is good to set
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``Reply-To: bazaar@lists.canonical.com``, so that people who reply to
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the announcement don't spam other lists.
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Subject: bzr x.yy released!
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<<Summary paragraph from news>>
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The Bazaar team is happy to announce availability of a new
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release of the bzr adaptive version control system.
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Bazaar is part of the GNU system <http://gnu.org/>.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and
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Bazaar is now available for download from
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http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball; packages
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<<NEWS section from this release back to the last major release>>
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#. Update the IRC channel topic. Use the ``/topic`` command to do this,
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* `Packaging into the bzr PPA <ppa.html>`_ to make and publish Ubuntu
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* `Bazaar Developer Document Catalog <index.html>`_
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