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Revision as of 18:34, 10 February 2015
GUI Release Tasks
This page shows the tasks to be completed before the GUI release is finalized.
File bug reports for all outstanding bugs known, but not reported- Put out a general call for reports on Octave-Maintainers and Octave-Help list
Completion Date: 2/1/15
Review patch tracker/bug list for any patches submitted that may be included before releaseCompletion Date: WON'T DO
- Identify Bugs which *must* be fixed prior to release
- Review bugs on tracker for possible inclusion in list
- Review bugs and update to correct category, such as Patch submitted
- Completion Date: 2/14/15
- Clear all bugs identified as must-fix
- Completion Date:
- GPL License activities
- Update Copyright statements for all source controlled files
- Add any new contributors to contributors.in
- Completion Date:
- Style-check code base
- This will produce lots of whitespace changes, but no behavior changes
- Must occur after patches have been added since whitespace changes will often prevent patches from applying
- Completion Date:
- Run lint checker on code base
- cppcheck, Clang sanitize, etc.
- Completion Date:
- Verify 'make check' is passing
- Start discussion on octave-maintainers list about which failing tests must be fixed
- Identify and fix any tests determined critical in step above
- Completion Date:
- Run Octave test suite under Valgrind to check for memory leaks
- Completion Date:
- Review documentation
- Grammar check documentation so that it conforms to Octave standards
- Spell check documentation
- Verify no functions missing from manual
- Verify deprecated functions removed from "see also" links
- Verify all formats (Info, HTML, pdf) build correctly
- Review NEWS for any features which should be announced
- Completion Date:
- Localization and Internationalization
- Submit call for translations for GUI strings.
- Completion Date:
- Verify build process and create release candidates
- Update version information in configure.ac/Makefile.am
- Verify 'make distcheck' passes
- Create release candidate
- 'make dist'
- hg tag repository with release candidate ID
- For Windows, create installer Windows Installer
- Upload release candidate
- Announce release candidate to Octave-Maintainers, Octave-Help, on web page
- Repeat release candidate cycle until clean
- Completion Date:
- Final Release
- hg tag repository with release
- merge default onto stable to become the current stable release
- add new release version to Savannah bug tracker
- Announce final release on Octave mailing lists and web site
- Completion Date:
- Post-Release
- Update configure.ac/Makefile.am versioning to next release cycle
- Remove all deprecated functions scheduled for deletion in default branch
- Completion Date: