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- Retrieve a clean checkout of the release branch
- Build the release branch using (with JDK 1.5) 'ant release -Drelease=true'
- Log in to SourceForge and go to the Fedora project
- Go to Admin -> File Releases
- Select to Add Release on Fedora
- Enter release name, create package
- Paste the URL for release notes in 'paste notes' section – - then Submit/Release
- Click on URL for 'upload new files' for upload directions.
- Upload all files in the release branch /dist/release directory using web upload (https://frs.sourceforge.net/webupload) - should be 4 files
- Go back to edit release page and files should be listed under 'Step 2: Add Files' section
- Select all files – - select Update
- Set all files to platform independent, select file type. Select Update for each.
- Go to Download -> Browse All Files and download the files under your new release (that you just put up) to make sure they were uploaded correctly
- Check the MD5 checksum values of each downloaded file (use the md5sum tool)
- Do an install of the Fedora server using the downloaded installer
- Update the file links when clicking on the Download button on SourceForge to point to the newly released files
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- Retrieve a clean checkout of utilities/trunk
- Build the utilities/trunk using 'ant dist'
- Copy everything in the utilities/trunk directory into a directory called fedora-{release number}-migration and zip that directory into a file called fedora-{release number}-migration.zip
- Use the md5sum tool to create an md5 hash, copy the hash value into a file called fedora-{release number}-migration.md5
- Upload the zip and md5 files to sourceforge as outlined in the Fedora release section above
- In SourceForge, go to Admin -> File Releases, select to edit the existing project (that you just made) and add the files. Set file types as before.
- Download the files once they are available in the Download -> Browse All Files section and verify the MD5 sum
Journaling RMI Reciever
- Build self-contained Jar from Fedora trunk with 'ant ??'
- Use the md5sum tool to create an md5hash, and put it in a text file called whatever-the-jar-is-named.jar.md5
- Upload the jar and md5 to sourceforce
- In SourceForge, go to Admin -> File Releases, select to edit the existing project (that you just made) and add the files. Set file types as before.
- Download the files once they are available in the Download -> Browse All Files section and verify the MD5 sum
Cleanup and Backup
- Create a SVN tag in the tags directory using the release branch released revision of the trunk (copy to ... tags/release-{release number})Merge the release branch to trunk
- Delete the release branch
- On fedora server (fedcommsrv1.nsdlib.org) go to /home/fedcommbkup/release-archive/ and create a directory structure using the date and release similar to: 2008/06-13/fedora-3.0b2
- Copy all of the files which were placed on sourceforge into this directory.
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- Build the Javadocs (ant docs) and add them to the website (see http://fedora-commons.org/documentation/3.1/javadocs
) - Create documentation distributions and update the wiki