How To Release Stratego XT

This is a to do list for creating a new release of StrategoXT.

Make sure trunk is ok

• The trunk revision must build at all machines of the buildfarm, Cygwin and Mac OS X.

• Commit bootstrapped sources:
  • Install StrategoXT from Subversion
  • make clean, make bootclean, make install (repeat).
  • svn commit all the changes

• Write news in news-archive/NEWS-0.XX. Also add this file to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am
  • Collect news items from svnlog and JIRA issues.

Make a branch

• Make a branch of the trunk

• Comment the XT_PRE_RELEASE macro in configure.ac

Make distributions

• Add a job for this branch to the configuration of the Nix buildfarm. This involves adding a build job in jobs.conf and creating a new attribute in the Nix expression strategoxt..nix. svn update the file jobs.conf at scratchy (/home/nix/release/supervisor).

• Download tarballs, RPM, and SRPM from the Nix releases server to the ftp of Stratego.

• Create binaries for Cygwin and Mac OS X, upload to ftp of Stratego.

• Create a tag of the branch for this Stratego release.

Annouce the release

• Update the Stratego Wiki:
  • Create a topic StrategoRelease0XX with URLs and the news.
  • Create a topic StrategoRelease0XXIssues with the JIRA release notes.
  • Point to this new release in StrategoDownload
  • Update the WebContents^? topic to the new release
  • Add a short news item to WebNews
  • flush the cache of the wiki.

• Remove Wiki markup from the news file and send this to stratego-announce@cs.uu.nl

Continue with next release

• Set the current version of StrategoXT 'released' in JIRA

• Trunk: increase the version numbers in all configure.ac files.