AppStream Release Notes

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

git shortlog APPSTREAM_0_7_0.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

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Version 0.7.1
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Released: 2014-xx-xx

Notes:

Features:

Specification:

Bugfixes:
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2. Commit changes in AppStream git:

git commit -a -m "Release version 0.7.1"
git tag -s -f -m "Release 0.7.1" APPSTREAM_0_7_1 <gpg password>
git push --tags
git push

3. run './release.sh --version=0.7.1 --git-tag=APPSTREAM_0_7_1 --sign'

4. Upload tarball: scp -r *.tar.xz* annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/appstream/releases

5. Make documentation and upload it:
   make -C build documentation && scp -r docs/html/* annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/appstream/docs

6. Do post release version bump in CMakeLists.txt, NEWS, RELEASE

7. Update library version if new ABI or API in CMakeLists.txt

8. Commit trivial changes:

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

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AppStream 0.7.1 released!

Tarballs available here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases

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