Merge branch 'jhcloos'

[fontconfig.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,3 +7,39 @@ 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 --localstatedir=/var
+               
+ 5.    make distcheck (NB: won't work without docbook-utils -PL)
+ 
+ 6.    tag the tree
+               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-2.3.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-2.3.xx.tar.gz ChangeLog-2.3.xx
+               
+11.    Post a note to fontconfig@fontconfig.org.  Include the md5sums.
+       gpg sign the message.