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How to prepare a release

update the locally maintained translation(s)

Run make update-po, then find which **/po/*.po files are maintained locally (see the MAINTAINERS file), then edit and commit those.

sync translations from translationproject

Run make pull-translations or manually run in the toplevel directory (of which po/ is a subdirectory)

rsync -Lrtvz  translationproject.org::tp/latest/libgphoto2/  po
rsync -Lrtvz  translationproject.org::tp/latest/libgphoto2_port/  libgphoto2_port/po

If gphoto2 is released too:

rsync -Lrtvz  translationproject.org::tp/latest/gphoto2/  po

For each updated '**/po/*.po' file, use

git commit LANG.po --author="Last translator from the po file"

to make it clear who did the change.

sync music-players.h from libmtp

We ship the music-players.h file from libmtp to give additional device support for distributions that might update libmtp less frequently.

Copy over from libmtp and commit.

test cameras

Run: make check

In the gphoto2 checkout I am running perl tests/testcamera.pl for several cameras that might have been affected by the current release.

update libtool library version(s), hopefully keeping the soname(s)

Ensure the libtool library version (from which the soname is derived) have been updated relative to the last release.

  • LIBGPHOTO2_{AGE,REVISION,CURRENT} in configure.ac and
  • LIBGPHOTO2_PORT_{AGE,REVISION,CURRENT} in libgphoto2_port/configure.ac

If no functions have been added since the last release, incrementing *_REVISION will do.

If functions have been added since the last release, update _AGE and _CHANGES and reset _REVISION to 0.

If functions have been removed, a lot of other work results besides updating the libtool library version.

update NEWS

git diff libgphoto2-2\_5\_21-release.. | less

summarize changes

tag release

bump version in configure.ac, NEWS, commit and push.

make clean
make
sudo make install

build and sign release ŧarballs

make distcheck

this builds .gz, .bz2 and .xz tarballs currently.

GPG detach sign:

gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.bz2
gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.gz
gpg --detach-sign -a libgphoto2-2.5.27.tar.xz

this will create .asc files alongside the tarballs.

Similar when doing the gphoto2 release.

tag git

Do old style and new style GIT tagging (new style for github largely)

git tag libgphoto2-2\_5\_27-release
git tag v2.5.27
git push --tags

create a README for sourceforge

Paste the NEWS blob from this release into README for uploading.

SF upload

Create a new folder below libgphoto2 with the release number in it (Add Folder).

Inside that "Add File" of the tarballs, the .asc files and the README.

After upload, select "Info" on the .tar.bz2 tarball, and "Select All" for the Default download. This will make it point the "default download" link to this tarball.

If you are uploading gphoto2, do the same ... but do not select it for the default download.

Github tagging

https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/releases

"Draft a new release"

Select the new release tag. Name is "2.5.27 release", paste in the NEWS blob into the textfield.

Edit the website

index.php

Use a entry similar to the current ones. Drop older ones occasionally.

news/index.php

Paste in the NEWS blob, htmlify with h2 - h3 and ul/li lists, same as the ones before

proj/libgphoto2/support.php

Adjust the date (env LANG=C date).

Adjust the gphoto2 --version blob (env LANG=C gphoto2 --version). Make sure you have the correct versions in there.

Replace the table with fresh output of:

/usr/lib64/libgphoto2/print-camera-list html

Upload via sftp

see upload.sh ... html tree starts below htdocs/ on the server.

Do not forget to "svn ci" the changes.

Verify website.

Check the pages render OK and no HTML error was introduced.

Announce to mailing list

Write a summary email to gphoto-user@lists.sourceforge.net, gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

Add download links to either SF or GITHUB.

Announce to freshcode.club

https://freshcode.club/, look for libgphoto2

Fill out the "New release" form. It is pretty straight forward. As text use the NEWS blob again.

Same for gphoto2.

Announce to twitter / facebook / etc.

e.g.:

I have just released libgphoto2 2.5.22 ( http://gphoto.org/news/ ) ... Fixed Canon EOS M and PowerShot SX capture, added Sony Alpha RX0 and RX100M5A, added Canon EOS R, and some bugfixes.

change IRC topic of #gphoto in libera.chat

/msg Chanserv topic #gphoto Digital cameras for Linux/UNIX/MacOS | http://gphoto.org/ | just ask | no webcams | newest 2.5.27

Announce to translation project

See https://translationproject.org/html/maintainers.html

Write an email to coordinator@translationproject.org

Subject: libgphoto2-2.5.28.pot

Hi,

libgphoto2 and libgphoto2_port translations domains are updated to 2.5.28.

Download location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/libgphoto/2.5.28/libgphoto2-2.5.28.tar.bz2/download


Also gphoto2 was updated to 2.5.28:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/gphoto/2.5.28/gphoto2-2.5.28.tar.bz2/download

Ciao, Marcus

Ciao, Marcus

Prepare git repo for further development

Rev NEWS and configure.ac versions to 2.5.27.1 devel release.