ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+ http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton,
- alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
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+ (c)2001-2018 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
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a) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-)
+ - is the AUTHORS file up to date?
b) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake
installed on the system you use for generating the release:
i) Run "./configure" to rebuild all generated Makefiles.
-j) Run "make distcheck" to generate the distribution archives.
+j) Run "make distcheck" (and "make dist-tarZ dist-xz") to generate all of the
+ distribution archives.
k) Sign the distribution archive(s) using GnuPG: "gpg -b <archivefile>"
l) Upload and distribute the newly generated ngIRCd release archive(s)
- and GnuPG signatures.
+ and GnuPG signatures (to the website, its mirrors, and GitHub).
-m) Write an announcement to the mailing list, freshmeat, Twitter, ...
+m) Update the ngIRCd website and its mirrors!
-n) Update the list of releases in our bug tracker.
+n) Write an announcement to the mailing list, Twitter, ...
o) Relax :-)