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  • allow to release directly from trunk w/o generating release candidates.
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2HOWTO release ARB
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5Overview:
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71. 'trunk' versioning
82. Create initial release candidate (rc1)
93. Create subsequent release candidates (rc2,..)
104. Create release
115. Hotfixes for release
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151. 'trunk' versioning
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17        To check trunk version look into ../version_info
18        or call
19                make show_version
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21        'trunk' shall always contain the release version number planned for the NEXT release.
22
23        Example1:
24                last release was arb-5.5
25                trunk should already contain arb-5.6 (or arb-6.0, whatever is planned)
26
27        Example2:
28                last release was arb-5.5
29                last rc was arb-6.0-rc1
30                trunk should already contain arb-6.1
31
32        Intention is to have a explicit feature freeze whenever a rc is branched.
33
34        To increment the version number,
35        - change into trunk WC
36        - svn update
37        - make inc_minor or inc_major
38        - in ../../arb_CHANGES.txt
39          - add missing changes
40          - update version info
41        - commit changes
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442. [optional] Create initial release candidate (rc1)
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46        - change into trunk WC and update to revision wanted for rc
47        - make sure the version number in trunk is already correct (see 1.)
48          To show it call
49                make show_version
50        - make sure arb_CHANGES.txt is up-to-date (i.e. lists changes for version-to-release)
51        - to make sure you are at HEAD call
52                svn update
53        - to branch the rc1 call
54                SOURCE_TOOLS/release/release_tool.pl branch_rc1
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573. [optional] Create subsequent release candidates (rc2,..)
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59        Note: Subsequent release candidates are meant for bugfixes only!
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61        - change into 'rc' WC
62        - to increment rc number call
63                make inc_candi
64        - merge all bugfixes from trunk (or apply them in branch 'rc' and merge them back to trunk)
65        - commit changes and let a jenkins build pass (job 'ARB-rc'; builds automatically)
66        - to make sure you are at HEAD call
67                svn update
68        - call
69                SOURCE_TOOLS/release/release_tool.pl tag_rc
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71
724. Create release
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74        Note: Release should be a copy of the latest 'rc' or 'trunk' revision.
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76        - change into 'rc' or 'trunk' WC
77        - to make sure you are at HEAD call
78                svn update
79        - to branch the release call
80                SOURCE_TOOLS/release/release_tool.pl branch_stable
81
82        Note: After the release is done, consider deleting the branch 'rc'.
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845. Hotfixes for release
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86        - change into 'stable' WC
87        - to increment the release patchlevel call
88                make inc_patch
89        - merge all hotfixes from trunk (or apply them in branch 'stable' and merge them back to trunk)
90        - commit changes and let a jenkins build pass (job 'ARB-stable'; builds automatically)
91        - to make sure you are at HEAD call
92                svn update
93        - call
94                SOURCE_TOOLS/release/release_tool.pl tag_stable
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