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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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release, and managing the release process. This is just one phase of the
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`overall development cycle <http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/developers/cycle.html>`_,
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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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If you're helping the Release Manager (RM) for one reason or another, you
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good reasons to do that but he may also have missed some parts.
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Follow the document yourself and don't hesitate to create the missing
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milestones for example (we tend to forget these ones a lot).
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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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#. Download the pqm plugin and install it into your ``~/.bazaar/plugins``::
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bzr branch lp:bzr-pqm ~/.bazaar/plugins/pqm
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To start a new release cycle:
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#. Create a new series at <https://launchpad.net/bzr/+addseries>. There is one
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#. Go to the series web page at <https://launchpad.net/bzr/x.y>
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#. Create a new release at
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr/x.y/+addrelease> and add
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information about this release. We will not use it yet, but it
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will be available for targeting or nominating bugs.
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#. We create a new pqm-controlled branch for this release series, by
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asking a Canonical sysadmin.
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general development continues on the trunk, and only
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specifically-targeted fixes go into the release branch.
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#. Add milestones at <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/x.y/+addmilestone> to
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that series for the beta release, release candidate and the final release,
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and their expected dates.
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#. Update the version number in the ``bzr`` script, and the
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``bzrlib/__init__.py`` file. Make sure there is always a corresponding
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milestone when you change that version number.
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#. Add a new section at the top of ``NEWS`` about the new release,
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including its version number and the headings from
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``NEWS-template.txt``.
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#. Send mail to the list with the key dates, who will be the release
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manager, and the main themes or targeted bugs. Ask people to nominate
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objectives, or point out any high-risk things that are best done early,
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or that interact with other changes. This is called the metronome mail
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and is described in `Development cycles <cycle.html>`_.
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#. Make a local branch for preparing this release. (Only for the first
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#. Download the pqm plugin and install it into your ``~/.bazaar/plugins``::
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``~/.bazaar/locations.conf``::
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[/home/mbp/bzr/prepare-1.14]
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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_branch = http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/x.y
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parent_branch = http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/x.y
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public_branch = http://bazaar.example.com/prepare-x.y
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the output of ``bzr --version``.
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| Subject: bzr x.yy released!
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Subject: bzr x.yy released!
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Congratulations - you have made your first release. Have a beer
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