[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r111986: Add note about release candidate

[Glenn Morris]

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revno: 111986
committer: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Sat 2013-03-09 18:14:29 -0800
message:
  Add note about release candidate
modified:
  admin/make-tarball.txt

=== modified file 'admin/make-tarball.txt'
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt    2013-03-07 07:03:18 +0000
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt    2013-03-10 02:14:29 +0000
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@
     For a pretest, start at version .90.  After .99, use .990 (so that
     it sorts).
 
+    The final pretest should be a release candidate.  Set the version
+    number to that of the actual release.  Pick a date about a week
+    from now when you intend to make the release.  Use M-x add-release-logs
+    to add the ChangeLog entries for that date to the tar file (but
+    not yet to the repository).  Name the tar file as
+    emacs-XX-Y-rc1.tar.  If all goes well in the following week, you
+    can simply rename the file and use it for the actual release.
+
 5.   autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
      make bootstrap