systemd/docs/RELEASE.md
Frantisek Sumsal b99a26e136 docs: update translation-related instructions
Just making them consistent with the rest of the doc.
2024-03-04 10:12:20 +01:00

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Steps to a Successful Release Contributing default LGPL-2.1-or-later

Steps to a Successful Release

  1. Add all items to NEWS
  2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (ninja -C build git-contrib)
  3. Update the time and place in NEWS
  4. Update hwdb (ninja -C build update-hwdb, ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend, commit separately).
  5. Update syscall numbers (ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header).
  6. [RC1] Update library numbers in meson.build
  7. Update version number in meson.version (e.g. from v256~devel to v256~rc1 or from v256~rc3 to v256)
  8. Check dbus docs with ninja -C build update-dbus-docs
  9. Update translation strings (ninja -C build systemd-pot, ninja -C build systemd-update-po) - drop the header comments from systemd.pot + re-add SPDX before committing. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file.
  10. Tag the release: version=vXXX~rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}". Note that this uses a tilde (~) instead of a hyphen (-) because tildes sort lower in version comparisons according to the version format specification, and we want v255~rc1 to sort lower than v255.
  11. Do ninja -C build
  12. Make sure that the version string and package string match: build/systemctl --version
  13. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
  14. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
  15. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
  16. Update IRC topic (/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/)
  17. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable.
  18. [FINAL] Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): ninja -C build doc-sync
  19. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).
  20. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io'
  21. [FINAL] Update version number in meson.version to the devel version of the next release (e.g. from v256 to v257~devel)