Lazarus 0.9.30.2 release plan

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers
• Add new LazTarget to the mantis for so we can postpone issue one release.

Bugs to be fixed

• Go over the list of new issues and determine if there are regressions among them

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

• A list of bugs with target 0.9.30.2.

Ask for testing

• Informally announce (IRC, mailing list) a pending release (+/- week before actual release), so that people can test for regressions. (Vincent)

Merge revisions from trunk

Submitted by developer / committer

The following revisions contain bug fixes and need to be merged from trunk to the fixes_0_9_30 branch.

• 31291

Tagging release

• Set version to 0.9.30.2 in fixes_0_9_30 branch (Vincent)
  • lazarus/ide/version.inc
  • lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas
  • lazarus/debian/changelog
  • lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist
  • open lazarus/lazarus.lpi in the IDE and change the version numbers in the project options dialog
• Tag fixes_0_9_30 branch to tags/release_0_9_30 (Vincent)
• Set version to 0.9.30.3 in fixes_0_9_30 branch (Vincent)

Building release

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

Announcements

• Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
  • Installing Lazarus
• List of changes: Lazarus 0.9.30 release notes (Mattias)
• Mailing lists (Mattias)
• News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org (Vincent)
• 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