Update version to 2.2.3 Add release comments to INSTALL

[fontconfig.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 86cf4f949c0488ce0f7e1383f04f8ef136c3af2d..5f511bc5840c20737087031efce46de89a015cb2 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,3 +7,28 @@ This should generate valid Makefiles, then:
        $ make
        $ make install
 
+If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several
+important steps:
+
+ 1.    Update the version numbers
+               configure.in
+               fontconfig/fontconfig.h
+ 2.    Fix the README
+               Change version number
+               Set the date
+ 3.    Commit those changes
+ 4.    rebuild the configuration files with autogen.sh
+               sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
+ 5.    make distcheck
+ 6.    tag the tree
+               cvs tag fc-2_2_xx
+ 7.    Split out the ChangeLog into ChangeLog-2.2.xx with
+       the changes since the previous release
+ 8.    Copy ChangeLog-2.2.xx and fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz to
+       freedesktop.org:~fontconfig/public_html/release
+ 9.    Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page
+       http://freedesktop.org/Software/FontconfigDevel
+10.    Compute md5sums for release files:
+               md5sum fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.2.xx
+11.    Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org.  Include the md5sums.
+       gpg sign the message.