II. How to prepare a new ngIRCd release?
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-a) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-)
- - is the AUTHORS file up to date?
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-b) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake
+a) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake
installed on the system you use for generating the release:
- as of October 2010 we are using GNU autoconf 2.67 and GNU automake 1.11.1
+ as of May 2020 we are using GNU autoconf 2.69 and GNU automake 1.11.6
which seem to work just fine.
+ NOTE: new releases of GNU automake DO NOT work, as they lack support for
+ the "ansi2knr" wrapper and "de-ANSI-fication" support!
+
+b) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-)
+ - Are all branches & patches merged? Check GitHub issues, pull requests
+ and milestones!
+ - Run as many tests as you can!
+ - Is the AUTHORS file up to date? This command may be helpful:
+ "( grep '>$' AUTHORS; git shortlog -se | cut -c8- ) | grep -Ev \
+ '(alex@barton.de|fw@strlen.de)' | LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 sort -u"
c) Update the files describing the new release:
- ChangeLog