Release engineering notes

Required manual steps

Pre-mkrel

• check copyright years in project-wide stuff
• make sure you're in a build tree that's not the source tree and configured using --enable-maintainer-mode
• make depend and commit if changed
• regenerate manpages: (cd man && make man) and commit if changed
• regenerate localization template (cd po && make update-po) and commit if changed
• manually edit patchlevel.h to reflect the new release
• manually update README
  • release dates (in major changes heading, ISO 8601 date format with hyphens)
  • changes
    • note whether bugfix release, maintenance vs current release
    • bullet list of major changes
    • minor changes = list of RT tickets fixed -- always grab a fresh list from RT when editing these!
  • contributors (RT is a good source for these)
• make additional manpage and update-po commits with updated patchlevel.h
• squash preceding commits so all versioning-related commits are a single commit (non-versioning changes to maintainer-mode stuff should remain separate commits)
• git tag krb5-x.y.z-final

Running mkrel

• path_to_mkrel/mkrel --repository $YOUR_SOURCE_TREE krb5-x.y.z-final krb5-x.y.z
• manually inspect output for versioning and correctness
  • HTML docs
  • PDF docs
  • patchlevel.h as modified by mkrel
• push to authoritative repository
• rerun mkrel against the authoritative repository: path_to_mkrel/mkrel krb5-x.y.z-final krb5-x.y.z

Post-mkrel

• PGP sign
• generate branded HTML docs
• edit web pages
• send announcement to kerberos-announce