Checklist of things to do before a release

A simple reminder list:

• Verify that wiki-default contains all pages listed in TracProject/DefaultWikiPages
• Check all default wikipages for TracLinks to nonexistant pages/resources
• Check that if code refactoring has been introduced, the peripheral scripts (such as trac-admin) are not broken.
• Update trunk/RELEASE from wiki ( w3m -dump -cols 74 http://... > RELEASE )
• Check the THANKS​ file
• Update the ChangeLog page as well as the ChangeLog​ file
• Update TracInstall and the INSTALL and UPGRADE files
• Update version number (in setup.py​ and wiki-default/WikiStart)
• Create dist packages
  • Check out trunk (or the release branch) to a clean sandbox
  • Build source tarballs:
    • python setup.py sdist on Unix, in order to get the files in the .tar.gz with the proper LF line endings
    • python setup.py sdist on Windows, in order to get the files in the .zip with the proper CRLF line endings
  • Build RPMs: python setup.py bdist_rpm
  • Build windows installer
    • remove wiki-default/checkwiki.py*
    • python setup.py bdist_wininst — .exe win32 installer
    • use Python 2.3 to build the installer, in order to avoid dependency on MSVCR71.dll, not always available.
• Test installation on all target platforms
  • Install on a clean system. Remove any old Trac installation before testing

• Tag/copy version in subversion
• Upload to ​http://ftp.edgewall.com/
• Update TracDownload
• Post on trac and trac-announce (only trac for non-beta releases)
• Update freshmeat entry

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See also: TracDev