that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
-** Update NEWS
-The version number, *and* the date of the release (including for
-betas).
+** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
+See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
-** Mention the release name in a commit message
-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:
-
- git tag -a v2.3b -m "Bison 2.3b."
-
-** Push
-Once "make distcheck" passes, push your changes and the tag.
-"git push" without arguments will not push the tag.
-
-** make alpha, beta, or release
+** make alpha, beta, or stable
See README-release.
** Upload
*** Using gnupload
You need "ncftp".
-At the end "make release" (or alpha/beta) will display the prodecure
-to run. Just copy and paste it in your shell.
+At the end "make stable" (or alpha/beta) will display the prodecure to
+run. Just copy and paste it in your shell.
*** By hand
issue.
** Announce
-To generate a template announcement file:
+The "make stable" (or alpha/beta) command just created a template,
+$HOME/announce-bison-X.Y. Otherwise, to generate it, run:
make RELEASE_TYPE=alpha gpg_key_ID=F125BDF3 announcement
the moderator will throw away anything cross-posted or Cc'ed. It really
needs to be a separate message.
-** Bump the version number
-In configure.ac. Run "make". So that developers don't accidentally add new
-items to the old NEWS entry, create a new empty NEWS entry something like:
+** Prepare NEWS
+So that developers don't accidentally add new items to the old NEWS
+entry, create a new empty entry in line 3 (without the two leading
+spaces):
- Changes in version ?.? (????-??-??):
+ * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
Push these changes.
# gnulib modules used by this package.
gnulib_modules='
- announce-gen argmatch assert calloc-posix close closeout config-h c-strcase
+ argmatch assert calloc-posix close closeout config-h c-strcase
configmake
dirname
- error extensions fdl fopen-safer gendocs getopt-gnu
+ error extensions fdl fopen-safer getopt-gnu
gettext git-version-gen gitlog-to-changelog
gpl-3.0 hash inttypes isnan javacomp-script
- javaexec-script ldexpl maintainer-makefile malloc-gnu mbschr mbsrchr
+ javaexec-script ldexpl malloc-gnu mbschr mbsrchr
mbswidth obstack perror progname
quote quotearg
readme-release