X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHECKLST.txt;h=d808b51ead0af9555991031208841e4b281ebbf5;hb=f4a4551d5bb0774e86a675fb5eeebcb31fff950b;hp=88bdabf029975174278f88eddbdfd632c0543624;hpb=1bfd89d722543e0dcacf562ed60a78bcfac5d65e;p=PuTTY.git diff --git a/CHECKLST.txt b/CHECKLST.txt index 88bdabf0..d808b51e 100644 --- a/CHECKLST.txt +++ b/CHECKLST.txt @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ The resource files: + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! - putty/mac/mac_res.r + - putty/unix/gtkdlg.c + + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and + once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix): @@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix): The website: - putty-website/licence.html - + Before tagging a release ------------------------ @@ -53,10 +56,25 @@ orders them correctly with respect to releases): - putty/LATEST.VER -And the Windows installer script: +The Windows installer script: - putty/putty.iss +The Mac resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the 'vers' +resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means): + + - putty/mac/version.r + +It might also be worth going through the documentation looking for +version numbers - we have a couple of transcripts showing the help +text from the command-line tools, and it would be nice to ensure the +whole transcripts (certainly including the version numbers) are up +to date. + + - putty/doc/pscp.but + - putty/doc/plink.but + - putty/doc/psftp.but (in case it ever acquires a similar thing) + The actual release procedure ---------------------------- @@ -77,12 +95,16 @@ of the tag. - Build the Windows/x86 release binaries. Don't forget to supply VER=/DRELEASE=. Run them, or at least one or two of them, to ensure that they really do report their version number correctly. + + Save the release link maps. Currently I keep these on ixion, + in src/putty/local/maps-. - Acquire the Windows/alpha release binaries from Owen. + Verify the snapshot-key signatures on these, to ensure they're really the ones he built. If I'm going to snapshot-sign a zip file I make out of these, I'm damn well going to make sure the binaries that go _into_ it were snapshot-signed themselves. + + Make sure Owen has kept the Alpha release link maps somewhere + useful. - Run Halibut to build the docs. @@ -137,6 +159,9 @@ of the tag. - Create subdir `htmldoc' in the release directory, which should contain exactly the same set of HTML files that went into puttydoc.zip. + + It also needs a copy of sitestyle.css, because the online + versions of the HTML docs will link to this (although the + zipped form should be self-contained). - Now the whole release directory should be present and correct. Upload to ixion:www/putty/, upload to @@ -153,6 +178,7 @@ of the tag. - Update web site. + Adjust front page (`the latest version is '). + + Adjust Download page similarly. + Adjust filename of installer on links in Download page. + Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing `are new' in previous version to `were new'!)