fwupd Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for fwupd in the same format as usual.

git shortlog 0.5.3.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 0.5.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

Update translations:

cd po
make fwupd.pot
INTLTOOL_EXTRACT="/usr/bin/intltool-extract" XGETTEXT="/usr/bin/xgettext --no-location" srcdir=. /usr/bin/intltool-update --gettext-package fwupd --pot
tx push --source
tx pull --all --minimum-perc=5
git add *.po

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THESE ARE CORRECT
export release_ver="0.5.4"

git commit -a -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}"
git tag -s -f -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

make distcheck

3a. Generate the additon verification metadata

sha1sum fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz > fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz.sha1
gpg -b -a fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:~/public_html/releases

5. Do post release version bump in configure.ac

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
git push