Lazarus 0.9.28 release plan

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers (Vincent)
• Add LazTarget (0.9.30) to the mantis, so we can postpone issues one release.

Before tagging

• Informally announce (IRC, mailing list) a pending release (+/- week before actual release), so that people can test for regressions (Vincent)
• Create fixes_0_9_28 branch for the final fixes before tagging (Vincent)

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

• A list of bugs with target 0.9.28.

Tagging release

• Set release version in fixes_0_9_28 (Vincent)
  • lazarus/ide/version.inc
  • lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
  • lazarus/debian/changelog
  • lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist
• Tag fixes_0_9_28 to tags/release_0_9_28 (Vincent)
• Increase version number in fixes to 0.9.28.1 (Vincent)

Building and uploading release

Building

• source (Vincent)
• html docs (Vincent)
• chm docs (Vincent)
• win32 (Vincent)
• win32 for arm-wince (Vincent)
• win64 (Vincent)
• linux source rpm (Joost)
• linux i386 rpm (Joost)
  • crosswin32 rpm (Mattias)
• linux x86_64 rpm (Joost)
• linux i386 deb (Vincent)
  • crosswin32 deb (Mattias)
• linux x86_64 deb (Vincent)
• Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)
• Mac OS X i386 (Vincent)

Uploading

• Ubuntu repo i386 (Vincent)
• Ubuntu repo x86_64 (Vincent)
• Move files from their temporary location (/home/pfs/project/l/la/lazarus/OldFiles/0.9.28) to the actual visual location in the SourceForge File Release System (Vincent)
• Mac OS X: fink unstable tree (Michael)

Announcements

• Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
  • Installing Lazarus
• List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.28 release notes (Mattias)
• Mailing lists (Mattias)
• News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org (Mattias)
• Sourceforge (Vincent)
• Freshmeat (Vincent)
• Change IRC topic (Marc)
• New versions in Mantis (Vincent)

After release

• Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version (Vincent)

Further

• Relax> (all)
• Plan next release (Paul)