Update instructions for doing a release. Autogen ChangeLog from git-log.

[fontconfig.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a6dc1df24fb51c90f4f6bee496f1a59d3793451e..928ac1ee8a573aa29394910eefcae735898d94da 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,22 +13,33 @@ 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 --localstatedir=/var
+               
  5.    make distcheck (NB: won't work without docbook-utils -PL)
+ 
  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
+               git-tag -u 096c4dd3 -m'Version 2.3.xx' 2.3.xx
+               
+ 7.    make Changelog-2.3.xx
+               git-log 2.3.(xx-1).. > ChangeLog-2.3.xx
+               
+ 8.    Copy ChangeLog-2.3.xx and fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz to
+ 
        freedesktop.org:/srv/fontconfig.freedesktop.org/www/release
+       
  9.    Update the Fontconfig Devel wiki page
        http://fontconfig.org/wiki/Devel
+       
 10.    Compute md5sums for release files:
-               md5sum fontconfig-2.2.xx.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.2.xx
+               md5sum fontconfig-2.3.xx.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.3.xx
+               
 11.    Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org.  Include the md5sums.
        gpg sign the message.