Re: [glob2-devel] Release Procedures

[Donkyhotay]

Looks like a good idea to me. The one issue I see is getting/organizing 
testers. I've been so busy with another FOSS project I haven't even 
launched glob2 in months so I don't know how much activity there has 
been on YOG recently, but in the past it can be difficult to find 
someone to play even a regular game with much less setting up a bughunt. 
If things are still slow on YOG when doing this we may want to schedule 
a glob2-fest on the dev list where we all try to work together to try to 
identify bugs in the code.


Do not be afraid to joust a giant just because some people believe in 
windmills.


Kyle Lutze wrote:
> I know we're not quite ready for beta5, but I thought it would be good
> to have a written procedure for creating releases so our download page
> doesn't look like we don't care about creating release packages like it
> did up through 0.9.4.3, and still does for the linux distributions. Any
> comments/concerns on making this a policy?
>
> - Kyle
> ==========
> Once a release is ready for a new version of glob2, the following steps
> must first be completed
>
> 1) The mercurial branch is frozen and tagged as the rc1 release
>
> 2) Packages must be made for the source, windows, OS X, ubuntu, debian,
> and fedora. An ebuild must be made for Gentoo.
>
> 3) these release candidate packages are to be uploaded to a separate
> folder, a bug report made for each package for comments, and a message
> sent out to the glob2-devel mailing list to get testers. The Download
> and Install page should have a link to the download folder and and bug
> reports to ask people to help with testing, but the main links should
> NOT be updated to RCs.
>
> 4) The packages must go through testing for a week, any bugs found are
> fixed and we repeat the process, bumping the release candidate number,
> until the latest RC goes a full week without any new bugs being found.
>
> 5) If after a week no new bugs are found and everyone is satisfied, the
> packages are renamed and uploaded as the final release. The Download and
> Install page on the wiki is then completely updated and a mail sent out
> to glob2-announce to hopefully get others to release packages for their
> distros and players can update their copies.
>
>
>
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