Release Schedule

[Martin Klapetek]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:16, George Kiagiadakis <
kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/7/23 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:52, David Edmundson <
> david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli
> >> <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 21/07/11 00:40, David Edmundson wrote:
> >> >> Ok, with the release happening, here is the plan:
> >> >>   - Feature freeze as of tomorrow night. Any features after 10pm
> >> >> tomorrow won't be in the first release
> >> >>   - Fixes can go on till Friday night, keep fixing trunk
> >> >>   - At this point, we make 0.1 branches in every component
> >> >>   - These get packaged and shipped on Thursday
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Some questions:
> >> >
> >> > - Do we have scripts to create the tarballs?
> >> No. Do we need them?
>
> git archive --format=tar --prefix=telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION/
> HEAD | bzip2 -9 > telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION.tar.bz2
>
> ;)
>
> > Probably not.
> >>
> >> > - Where do we upload the tarballs?
> >> Don't know - any ideas?
> >
> > Does KDE provide any kind of "release space"? Otherwise I think it's ok
> to
> > put the tarballs to whatever place, important is to get links among
> people
> > (we need to decide this ASAP so we can put those link in promo notes).
>
> The KDE ftp server. Someone needs to ask the sysadmins...
>

<bcooksley> mck182: upload your files to upload.kde.org
<bcooksley> there is a file there "README" which lays out the steps you need
to take to get it uploaded
<bcooksley> to the main ftp.kde.org + mirror network


>
> >>
> >> > - Who will create the tarballs?
> >> Don't know - volunteers?
> >
> > I know virtually nothing about packaging, so probably not me. But it
> should
> > be just making a snapshot of the git repos, right?
>
> I can do that...
> Snapshots of the git repos it is, unless we want to do something more
> monolithic...


> PS: What should be the names of the tarballs? For some of the
> comonents (for instance, the text-ui), the repo name is not the best
> to use in the tarball. I would suggest to use the names that I used in
> the debian packages (see [1]), but I'm open to other ideas...
>

I agree. Let's go with these names. It will be less confusing for everyone.


>
> [1]. http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/gkiagia (telepathy-kde-* repos)
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