bat/doc/release-checklist.md
Martin Nordholts 4e34b362f8 Require changes to -h and --help to be blessed
From now on, any changes to the help texts will be visible in PR diffs,
which will make it very easy to review, and very hard to accidentally
miss changes to help texts.

If a contributor makes a change to help texts, the `cargo test` failure
text they will see contains instructions on how to update the blessed
help texts:

    error: expect test failed
       --> ../doc/long-help.txt

    You can update all `expect!` tests by running:

        env UPDATE_EXPECT=1 cargo test

In short, to update blessed help texts, one simply does

    env UPDATE_EXPECT=1 cargo test

Do not run the tests if the `git` feature is missing, since then
`--diff` will be missing from `--help`. And do not run the tests on
Windows, because then the help text will contain the term `.exe`.

Move man page step to after cargo doc step so that the man page exists
when we look for it.
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# Release checklist
## Version bump
- [ ] Update version in `Cargo.toml`. Run `cargo build` to update `Cargo.lock`.
Make sure to `git add` the `Cargo.lock` changes as well.
- [ ] Find the current min. supported Rust version by running
`grep '^\s*MIN_SUPPORTED_RUST_VERSION' .github/workflows/CICD.yml`.
- [ ] Update the version and the min. supported Rust version in `README.md` and
`doc/README-*.md`. Check with
`git grep -i -e 'rust.*1\.' -e '1\..*rust' | grep README | grep -v tests/`.
- [ ] Update `CHANGELOG.md`. Introduce a section for the new release.
## Update syntaxes and themes (build assets)
- [ ] Install the latest master version (`cargo clean && cargo install --locked -f --path .`) and make
sure that it is available on the `PATH` (`bat --version` should show the
new version).
- [ ] Run `assets/create.sh` and check in the binary asset files.
## Documentation
- [ ] Review [`-h`](./short-help.txt), [`--help`](./long-help.txt), and the `man` page. The `man` page is shown in
the output of the CI job called *Documentation*, so look there.
The CI workflow corresponding to the tip of the master branch is a good place to look.
## Pre-release checks
- [ ] Push all changes and wait for CI to succeed (before continuing with the
next section).
- [ ] Optional: manually test the new features and command-line options. To do
this, install the latest `bat` version again (to include the new syntaxes
and themes).
- [ ] Run `cargo publish --dry-run` to make sure that it will
succeed later (after creating the GitHub release).
## Release
- [ ] Create a tag and push it: `git tag vX.Y.Z; git push origin tag vX.Y.Z`.
This will trigger the deployment via GitHub Actions.
REMINDER: If your `origin` is a fork, don't forget to push to e.g. `upstream` instead!
- [ ] Go to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases/new to create the new
release. Select the new tag and also use it as the release title. For the
release notes, copy the corresponding section from `CHANGELOG.md` and
possibly add additional remarks for package maintainers.
Publish the release.
- [ ] Check if the binary deployment works (archives and Debian packages should
appear when the CI run for the Git tag has finished).
- [ ] Publish to crates.io by running `cargo publish` in a *clean* repository.
The safest way to do this is to clone a fresh copy.
## Post-release
- [ ] Prepare a new "unreleased" section at the top of `CHANGELOG.md`.
Put this at the top:
```
# unreleased
## Features
## Bugfixes
## Other
## Syntaxes
## Themes
## `bat` as a library
```