<p>Based on a <a href="https://mail.gna.org/public/xmpp4r-devel/2008-08/msg00017.html">nice formalization</a> by Glenn Rempe:</p> <ol> <li><code>git pull</code> to get latest code</li> <li>fix the erroring out tests. get clean pass with <code>rake test</code></li> <li>Update version number in <em>lib/xmpp4r/xmpp4r.rb</em></li> <li>Add date to <em><span class="caps">CHANGELOG</span></em></li> <li>Parse through <code>git log</code> and make sure any big changes are added to <em><span class="caps">CHANGELOG</span></em></li> <li>Update the <em>gemspec</em> (critical!) with <code>rake gem:update_gemspec</code> otherwise the gem will not have the current ver num.</li> <li>Replace <em>setup.rb</em> with the newest version</li> <li><code>git commit</code> and <code>git push</code> those changes</li> <li>Add tag for release with <code>git tag v0.x.x</code></li> <li><code>git push --tags</code></li> <li>clean up/generate the gem and tarball with: <ol> <li>cleanup in prep for gem/tarball generation with <code>rake clobber</code></li> <li>generate the gem, tarball and zip files with <code>rake package</code> which puts generated files in <em>pkg/</em> dir.</li> <li>Upload files as a new release in <em>RubyForge</em></li> <li>Upload files as a new release in <em>gna.org</em></li> </ol></li> <li>Generate the <em>rdoc</em> files</li> <li>upload the rdoc files to <em>gna.org</em> replacing the existing ones</li> <li>Send announcement to xmpp4r-devel@, possibly jdev@ and ruby-talk@</li> <li>Have a beer</li> </ol> 2008-08-05T05:49:33-07:00 42632 release-procedure 22305 2008-08-05T10:15:14-07:00 117