Extra required software for making a release
- github-release for uploading packages
- pandoc for making the html and man pages
Making a release
- git status - make sure everything is checked in
- Check travis & appveyor builds are green
- make check
- make test
- make tag
- edit docs/content/changelog.md
- make doc
- git status - to check for new man pages - git add them
- git commit -a -v -m "Version v1.XX"
- make retag
- make cross
- make upload
- make upload_website
- git push --tags origin master
- git push --tags origin master:stable # update the stable branch for packager.io
- make upload_github
- make startdev
Early in the next release cycle update the vendored dependencies
- make update
- git status
- git add new files
- carry forward any patches to vendor stuff
- git commit -a -v
Make the version number be just in a file?