[Uim] Release manual draft

[Kazuki Ohta]

Hi, TOKUNAGA-san.

This documents seems good to me. Thank you for your work :-) The other
committers should reply to this mail, I think. All the members' accept is
needed.

> This is a draft of release manual. If there's no comment, I'll commit
> this manual tommorow. (Though it's a very rough, incomplete manual,
> would be better than nothing.)
> 
> Release manual for uim
> ======================
> 
> As of this moment, uim have three types of release on the same version.
> They are alpha, beta and final. Alpha may be unstable release, may be
> untested. After alpha release, new big features must not be committed.
> 
> Beta release must tested partially by the maintainer. Ideally well
> tested by the maintainer. If beta1 is too unstable, beta2 should be
> release to ensure the quality of final release. After beta release, new
> features must not be committed.
> 
> Final release is really final release. Must be tested well.
> 
> In each release, following steps should be filled. To make final
> release, you have to repeat following procedure at least three times.
> 
> 
> 1. Declare 'I will make new release' to the mailing list.
> 
> Committers must not add a new unstable feature if the declaration came.
> 
> 2. Gather up brief of the release from each committers.
> 
> ChangeLog of uim is very long, so making release note from the ChangeLog
> is a hard work. Therefore committer should send brief of their commit. Maybe
> we sould prepare better way.
> 
> 3. Checkout fresh version from svn.
> 
>  svn co svn+ssh://freedesktop.org/srv/uim.freedesktop.org/svn/trunk
> 
> 4. Do build test with make releasetest
> 
>    This test is not enough, but worth. Especially it's useful when a
>    new file is added. As a TODO, we should do unit test at this point.
> 
> 5. Do test
> 
>    This item needs many many description... I must fill this item
>    later.
> 
> 6. Increment the version in configure.ac, then commit it.
> 
> 7. make dist
> 
> 8. Copy the source tarball to http://uim.freedesktop.org/releases
> 
> 9. Tag to tags/uim-x.y.z
> 
>   svn copy svn+ssh://freedesktop.org/srv/uim.freedesktop.org/svn/trunk\
>   svn+ssh://freedesktop.org/srv/uim.freedesktop.org/svn/tags/uim-x.y.z
> 
> 10. Send a message to uim at freedesktop.org.
> 
> 11. Update web page.
> 
> 

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Kazuki Ohta : mover at hct.zaq.ne.jp
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