the appropriate paperwork. Second, be sure to add their name and
email address to THANKS.
-** If a change fixes a test, mention the test in the ChangeLog entry.
+** If a change fixes a test, mention the test in the log entry.
** Bug reports
-If somebody reports a new bug, mention his name in the ChangeLog entry
+If somebody reports a new bug, mention his name in the log entry
and in the test case you write. Put him into THANKS.
The correct response to most actual bugs is to write a new test case
which demonstrates the bug. Then fix the bug, re-run the test suite,
and check everything in.
-** You may find it useful to install the git-merge-changelog merge driver:
-
- http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/git-merge-changelog.c
-
-When following the generic installation instructions there, keep in mind that
-your clone of Bison's git repository already contains appropriate
-.gitattributes files, and running Bison's bootstrap script will make the
-necessary changes to .git/config.
-
* Hacking
lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
lib/m4sugar/foreach.m4
-These files don't change very often in autoconf, so it should be
+These files don't change very often in Autoconf, so it should be
relatively straight-forward to examine the differences in order to
decide whether to update.
** Update the submodules. See above.
+** Update maintainer tools, such as Autoconf. See above.
+
** Try to get the *.pot files to the Translation Project at least one
week before a stable release, to give them time to translate them.
Before generating the *.pot files, make sure that po/POTFILES.in and
The version number, *and* the date of the release (including for
betas).
-** Update ChangeLog
-Should have an entry similar to `Version 1.49b.'.
+** Mention the release name in a commit log
+Should have an entry similar to `Version 2.3b.'.
** Tag the release
-Before Bison will build with the right version number, you must tag the release
-in git. Do this after all other changes. The command is similar to:
+Before Bison will build with the right version number, you must tag
+the release in git. Do this after all other changes. The command is
+similar to:
git tag -a v2.3b
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+Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Bison.