How do we release?

Create a branch

version

version legend:

• x.y.z
• x = major
• y = minor
• z = fix (0 can be omitted)

creating a new release branch

svn cp trunk/ branches/release-x.y
svn cp trunk/ tags/release-x.y
svn ci -m "new x.y release"

The differences between branches and tags is the following:

• a tag may not be "patched" or "hotfixed"
• branch maybe "patched" or "hotfixed"
• in case you apply a fix to a branch, please create a new tag as well

creating a tag after a fix

svn ci -m " * important security fix in x.y release" branches/release-x.y
svn cp branches/release-x.y tags/release-x.y.z

create download

major relase

svn export http://trac.roundcube.net/branches/release-x.y ./roundcubemail
tar -cf roundcubemail-x.y.tar ./roundcubemail
gzip roundcubemail-x.y.tar
rm -rf ./roundcubemail

• distribute release on SourceForge?
• adjust naming in case of a "hotfix" / "patch"

minor release / hotfix

• repeat entire process
• supply a patch in addition:

svn diff branches/release-x.y tags/x.y.z > ./roundcubemail-patch-x.y.z.patch
gzip ./roundcubemail-patch-x.y.z.patch

• distribute patch on SourceForge?

announcements

• write news entry on SourceForge?
• post on Twitter (Till)
• email announce@, dev@ and users@

TBD

• encourage maintainers to subscribe to announce@
• seperately ping distros