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- $Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.37 2002/04/26 17:23:29 swa Exp $
+ $Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.38 2002/04/29 02:20:31 hal9 Exp $
Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
<artheader>
<title>Privoxy Developer Manual</title>
- <pubdate>$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.37 2002/04/26 17:23:29 swa Exp $</pubdate>
+ <pubdate>$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.38 2002/04/29 02:20:31 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<para><emphasis>Example for file comments:</emphasis></para>
<programlisting>
-const char FILENAME_rcs[] = "$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.37 2002/04/26 17:23:29 swa Exp $";
+const char FILENAME_rcs[] = "$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.38 2002/04/29 02:20:31 hal9 Exp $";
/*********************************************************************
*
* File : $S<!-- Break CVS Substitution -->ource$
<programlisting>
#ifndef _FILENAME_H
#define _FILENAME_H
-#define FILENAME_H_VERSION "$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.37 2002/04/26 17:23:29 swa Exp $"
+#define FILENAME_H_VERSION "$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 1.38 2002/04/29 02:20:31 hal9 Exp $"
/*********************************************************************
*
* File : $S<!-- Break CVS Substitution -->ource$
<filename>gmake</filename> (GNU's version of make), autoconf, cvs.
</para>
+ <sect2 id="versionnumbers">
+ <title>Version numbers</title>
+
<para>
- In the following text, replace X, Y and Z with the actual version number
- (X = major, Y = minor, Z = point):
+ First you need to determine which version number the release will have.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> version numbers consist of three numbers,
+ separated by dots, like in X.Y.Z, where:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ X, the version major, is rarely ever changed. It is increased by one if
+ turning a development branch into stable substantially changes the functionality,
+ user interface or configuration syntax. Majors 1 and 2 were
+ <application>Junkbuster</application>, and 3 will be the first stable
+ <application>Privoxy</application> release.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Y, the version minor, represents the branch within the major version.
+ At any point in time, there are two branches being maintained:
+ The stable branch, with an even minor, say, 2N, in which no functionality is
+ being added and only bugfixes are made, and 2N+1, the development branch, in
+ which the further development of <application>Privoxy</application> takes
+ place.
+ This enables us to turn the code upside down and inside out, while at the same time
+ providing and maintaining a stable version.
+ The minor is reset to zero (and one) when the major is inrcemented. When a development
+ branch has matured to the point where it can be turned into stable, the old stable branch
+ 2N is given up (i.e. no longer maintained), the former development branch 2N+1 becomes the
+ new stable branch 2N+2, and a new development branch 2N+3 is opened.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Z, the point or sub version, represents a release of the software within a branch.
+ It is therefore incremented immediately before each code freeze.
+ In development branches, only the even point versions correspond to actual releases,
+ while the odd ones denote the evolving state of the sources on CVS in between.
+ It follows that Z is odd on CVS in development branches most of the time. There, it gets
+ increased to an even number immediately before a code freeze, and is increased to an odd
+ number again immediately thereafter.
+ This ensures that builds from CVS snapshots are easily distinguished from released versions.
+ The point version is reset to zero when the minor changes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
+
+ </sect2>
<sect2 id="beforerelease">
- <title>Before the Release</title>
+ <title>Before the Release: Freeze</title>
<para>
The following <emphasis>must be done by one of the
developers</emphasis> prior to each new release.
<para>
Make sure that everybody who has worked on the code in the last
couple of days has had a chance to yell <quote>no!</quote> in case
- they have pending changes/fixes in their pipelines.
+ they have pending changes/fixes in their pipelines. Announce the
+ freeze so that nobody will interfere with last minute changes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Increment the version number and increase or reset the RPM release number
- in <filename>configure.in</filename> as appropriate.
+ Increment the version number (point from odd to even in development
+ branches!) in <filename>configure.in</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- If the default <filename>actionsfile</filename> has changed since last
- release, bump up its version info in this line:
+ If <filename>default.action</filename> has changed since last
+ release (i.e. software release or standalone actions file release),
+ bump up its version info to A.B in this line:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
<listitem>
<para>
If the HTML documentation is not in sync with the SGML sources
- you need to regenerate it. (If in doubt, just do it.) See the
- Section "Updating the webserver" in this manual for details.
+ you need to regenerate and upload it to the webserver. (If in
+ doubt, just do it.) See the Section "Updating the webserver" in
+ this manual for details.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Commit all files that were changed in the above steps!</emphasis>
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tag all files in CVS with the version number with
Don't use vX_Y_Z, ver_X_Y_Z, v_X.Y.Z (won't work) etc.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If the release was in a development branch, increase the point version
+ from even to odd (X.Y.(Z+1)) again in <filename>configure.in</filename> and
+ commit your change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ On the webserver, copy the user manual to a new top-level directory
+ called <filename>X.Y.Z</filename>. This ensures that help links from the CGI
+ pages, which have the version as a prefix, will go into the right version of the manual.
+ If this is a development branch release, also symlink <filename>X.Y.(Z-1)</filename>
+ to <filename>X.Y.Z</filename> and <filename>X.Y.(Z+1)</filename> to
+ <filename>.</filename> (i.e. dot).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="newrelease-rpm"><title>SuSE or Red Hat</title>
+ <sect3 id="newrelease-rpm"><title>SuSE or Red Hat RPM</title>
+ <para>
+ In following text, replace <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>
+ with either <quote>rh</quote> for Red Hat or <quote>suse</quote> for SuSE.
+ </para>
<para>
First, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
- packages" above). Then run:
+ packages" above).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ As the only exception to not changing anything after export from CVS,
+ now examine the file <filename>privoxy-</filename><replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable><filename>.spec</filename>
+ and make sure that the version information and the RPM release number are
+ correct. The RPM release numbers for each version start at one. Hence it must
+ be reset to one if this is the first RPM for
+ <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable> which is built from version
+ X.Y.Z. Check the
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">file
+ list</ulink> if unsure. Else, it must be set to the highest already available RPM
+ release number for that version plus one.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Then run:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
- make suse-dist (or make redhat-dist)
+ make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-dist
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
- make suse-upload (or make redhat-upload)
+ make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-upload <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable>
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
+ where <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable> is the
+ RPM release number as determined above.
Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on Sourceforge.
- Use the release notes and รงhange log from the source tarball package.
+ Use the release notes and change log from the source tarball package.
</para>
</sect3>
<title>Uploading and Releasing Your Package</title>
<para>
After the package is ready, it is time to upload it
- to SourceForge, and go through the release steps. The upload
+ to SourceForge, and go through the release steps. The upload
is done via FTP:
</para>
<para>
Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
$Log: developer-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 1.38 2002/04/29 02:20:31 hal9
+ Add info on steps for uploading and the release process on SF.
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Revision 1.37 2002/04/26 17:23:29 swa
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