release: Refine process #1176

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   real-or-random commented at 11:13 pm on December 12, 2022: contributor

   Some questions that popped up during the 0.2.0 release:

   • Maintenance release: In fact we could have multiple PRs here before the release PR. Do we want to write this down?
   • Should we add instructions to check the contents of make dist / run make distcheck?
   • Add instructions to run symbol check (after #1135)?
2. real-or-random cross-referenced this on Dec 12, 2022 from issue Create a release by shazow
3. real-or-random added this to the milestone stable release (1.0.0-rc.1) on Dec 12, 2022
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   hebasto commented at 7:47 pm on December 13, 2022: member

   • Add instructions to run symbol check (after #1135)?

   :+1:

5. 
   real-or-random commented at 3:54 pm on January 16, 2023: contributor

   Release schedule (from IRC meeting 2023-01-16):

   • Twice as often as a major release of Core (which is every 6-7 months), i.e., every 3-4 months for us. We try to aim to one month before feature freeze of Core major release for every second of our releases. Of course, we can still create more releases whenever we feel there’s need, e.g., for bugfixes.
   • That means the next planned release will be on/around 2023-03-01.
6. real-or-random cross-referenced this on Mar 7, 2023 from issue release: prepare for 0.3.0 by jonasnick
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   real-or-random commented at 8:33 pm on March 8, 2023: contributor

   Another thing that’s good to sanity-check before release (even if done manually) is if the result of make install looks reasonable (e.g., set of files is correct). This can be done best with by installing to some temporary location, i.e., --prefix=/tmp/install or -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/install.
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   real-or-random commented at 10:04 pm on March 8, 2023: contributor

   We should think about signing releases properly.
9. real-or-random removed this from the milestone stable release (1.0.0-rc.1) on Mar 8, 2023
10. real-or-random added this to the milestone 0.3.1 (or 0.4.0) on Mar 8, 2023
11. jonasnick cross-referenced this on May 12, 2023 from issue Refine release process by jonasnick
12. real-or-random closed this on May 24, 2023

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Contributors
real-or-random hebasto

Milestone
0.3.3 (or 0.4.0)