[PATCH 1/2] dist: automate the post-release web-manual update process

[Jim Meyering]

Here are a couple of distribution/release-related patches.
Just pushed.

There's plenty of room for additions and improvements in the
new README-release file.

>From ce9c2c64de5798fbc17e6d64efc88fcdf9a039dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:56:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dist: automate the post-release web-manual update process

* maint.mk (web-manual): New rule, from m4's maint.mk.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gendocs.
---
 bootstrap.conf |    1 +
 doc/.gitignore |    1 +
 maint.mk       |    8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 9c385e4..446d611 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
        fsusage ftruncate
        ftello
        fts getdate getgroups gethrxtime
+       gendocs
        getline getloadavg getndelim2 getopt getpagesize getpass-gnu
        gettext gettime gettimeofday getugroups getusershell
        git-version-gen
diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore
index 723a5a0..8d1fd24 100644
--- a/doc/.gitignore
+++ b/doc/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ coreutils.toc
 coreutils.tp
 coreutils.vr
 fdl.texi
+gendocs_template
 getdate.texi
 stamp-vti
 version.texi
diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index da5521e..ee279fe 100644
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -862,3 +862,11 @@ alpha beta major: $(local-check) writable-files
        perl -pi -e '$$. == 3 and print "$(noteworthy)\n\n\n"' NEWS
        $(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
        $(VC) commit -F .ci-msg -a
+
+.PHONY: web-manual
+web-manual:
+       @cd '$(srcdir)/doc'; \
+         $(SHELL) ../build-aux/gendocs.sh -o '$(abs_builddir)/doc/manual' \
+            --email $(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT) $(PACKAGE) \
+           "$(PACKAGE_NAME) - Core GNU utilities"
+       @echo " *** Upload the doc/manual directory to web-cvs."
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>From 59cec5af1277d335f1c63662ea6145f574c86beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:29:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dist: document our release procedure

* README-release: New file.
---
 README-release |   95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README-release

diff --git a/README-release b/README-release
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59c084f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README-release
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
+
+* start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.
+
+    git checkout master; git pull
+
+* Run ./configure && make maintainerclean
+
+* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, bison, etc.
+  are in your PATH.
+
+* Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
+  This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff
+
+* Make sure your local gnulib directory is up to date.
+
+* Run bootstrap, (assuming your local copy of gnulib is in /gnulib):
+  ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/gnulib
+
+FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
+
+* Pre-release testing:
+  On at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and one non-SELinux system,
+    run all tests, both root-only and regular.
+  Run *all* non-root tests, including expensive and very expensive ones i.e.,
+    run this: make check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
+
+  Run the root-only tests:
+  sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root
+
+* Run "make distcheck"
+
+* Manually set the date, version number, and [stable/alpha/beta] on
+  line 3 of NEWS, then do this:
+
+    v=7.1
+    git commit -F <(printf 'version '$v'\n\n* NEWS: Record release date.\n') -a
+    git tag -s -m "coreutils $v" v$v HEAD
+
+* Run the following to create release tarballs.  Your choice selects the
+  corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
+
+    # "TYPE" must be major, beta or alpha
+    XZ_OPT=-9e make TYPE
+
+* Test the tarball.  copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
+  it builds and passes all tests.
+
+* While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
+  soon post.
+
+Once all the builds and tests have passed,
+
+* Run the gnupload command suggested by your "XZ_OPT=-9e make major" run above.
+
+* Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
+  download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
+  that they're all valid.
+
+* Push the new tag:
+  git push origin tag v<JUST_RELEASED_VERSION_NUMBER>
+
+* Send the gpg-signed announcement mail, e.g.,
+    To: address@hidden, address@hidden
+    Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
+    Subject: coreutils-7.1 released [stable]
+
+* Approve the announcement here:
+  http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
+
+* Announce it on Savannah, too:
+  From here:
+    https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
+  click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
+
+    The announcement is here:
+      http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/48
+
+  Then go here to approve it:
+    https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
+
+* For non-alpha releases, update the on-line manual at
+
+    http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
+
+  Run `make web-manual', then copy the contents of doc/manual
+  into a CVS checkout of the coreutils manual repository.
+  Also edit coreutils.html (FIXME? why?) before doing a CVS commit.
+
+    CVS_RSH=ssh \
+    cvs -d:ext:address@hidden:/web/coreutils co coreutils
+
+  Be sure to "cvs add" any files that "cvs status" marks with "?".
+  That is necessary whenever a new texinfo node is added.  Each becomes
+  a new file in html_node that must then be "cvs add"ed.
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