Update the tech note about making new releases with more information.

Mention other release-related things and not only how to create the release
files.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@65036 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/docs/tech/index.txt b/docs/tech/index.txt
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--- a/docs/tech/index.txt
+++ b/docs/tech/index.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tn0018.txt   How to add a new font encoding/charset to wxWidgets
 tn0019.txt   Special notes about writing wxMSW code
 tn0020.txt   Binary compatibility and wxWidgets
 tn0021.txt   How to add a new wxUSE_XXX preprocessor constant
 tn0019.txt   Special notes about writing wxMSW code
 tn0020.txt   Binary compatibility and wxWidgets
 tn0021.txt   How to add a new wxUSE_XXX preprocessor constant

-tn0022.txt   Working with the wxWidgets release system
+tn0022.txt   Making a new release

 tn0023.txt   Adding a new app/screenshot to the wxWidgets.org front page
 tn0024.txt   How to add a new XRC handler
 
 tn0023.txt   Adding a new app/screenshot to the wxWidgets.org front page
 tn0024.txt   How to add a new XRC handler
 

diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
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--- a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
+++ b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
-                   Working with the wxWidgets release system
-                   =========================================
-
-Process Overview:
-- run build/tools/create-archive.py --compression=all /path/to/output/dir
-- upload release to sf.net
-- update wxwidgets.org
-- promote release on software download sites
+                        Making a new wxWidgets release
+                        ==============================

 
 

+Creating release files
+----------------------

 
 Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases.
 The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must
 
 Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases.
 The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must


@@ -29,3 +25,40 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: You *must* run this script from a clean source tree, that is,
           release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need
           to be in the release, commit them first.
 
           release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need
           to be in the release, commit them first.
 

+
+Also run doxygen to create HTML documentation and pack it in .tar.bz2 and .zip
+formats.
+
+
+Uploading
+---------
+
+Upload the files to SourceForge (the simplest is to scp them to
+sfusername,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z) and to
+ftp.wxwidgets.org (ask Chris to do it).
+
+Create http://docs.wxwidgets.org/x.y.z/ (ask Bryan to do it).
+
+
+Announcement
+------------
+
+Post announcement at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
+
+TODO: where else to announce it?
+
+Update www.wxwidgets.org, usually a news item is enough but something more can
+be called for for major releases.
+
+Post to wxBlog if necessary.
+
+
+Version updates
+---------------
+
+Trac: mark the milestone corresponding to the release as completed and add a
+new version for it to allow reporting bugs against it (ask Vadim or Robin to do
+it).
+
+Run misc/scripts/inc_release to increment micro version, i.e. replace x.y.z
+with x.y.z+1 (minor or major versions updates require manual intervention).