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Steps for Mapnik Releases

Prepare

Catch up on CHANGELOG by going through all commits

Set release date (http://trac.mapnik.org/roadmap), after checkins with development team

Announce release plans to mapnik-devel/mapnik-users

Recruit volunteers to help with release laundry-list.

Develop and add to laundry-list on this page.

Sort Trac tickets, prioritize, assign, close or push.

Consider updating Fonts and Scons-local.

Testing

Buildbot: http://miranda.nwcr.net:8010/waterfall

Trac Pre-Release

Update Roadmap details for Milestone

Change default Ticket Milestone

Change default Ticket Version adding new release

SVN updates

Generate Python API docs:

$ sudo easy_install epydoc
$ cd docs/epydoc_config
$ ./test_build_epydoc.sh # will output sample docs in 'test_api' folder, view the 'index.html' file
$ ./build_epydoc.sh # will build and add to to ../api_docs/python

* Then upload these docs to media.mapnik.org/api_docs replacing what is already there.

Commit in trunk:

Update version number in http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/include/mapnik/version.hpp
Update abi_fallback in http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/SConstruct
Update libmapnik.dylib current_version and compatibility_version in http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/src/SConscript

Update CHANGELOG with the svn r the tagged release is made from.

Tag release

Packaging

Strip autotools/makefiles from tag:

rm -rf config/
rm bootstrap
rm configure.ac
rm autogen.sh
rm mapnik.anjuta
rm mapnik-uninstalled.pc.in
rm mapnik.pc.in
for i in $(find . -name Makefile*); do rm $i; done;

Strip svn data from tag:

$ find . -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;

Package tarball/gzip:

$ NAME=mapnik_VERSION
$ cd ../
$ svn co http://svn.mapnik.org/tags/release-0.7.1 $NAME
$ cd $NAME
$ find . -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;
$ cd ../
$ tar --exclude=".*" -cvf $NAME.tar $NAME/*
$ gzip $NAME.tar

Make sure to include:

Updated Python bindings (__init__.py)
Customize __init__.py to remove unix specific DL open stuff
demo/python/rundemo.py, etc

Post tarball (gzip and bz2) of source at berlios (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/mapnik) and http://media.mapnik.org.

mapnik-VERSION.tar.gz
mapnik-VERSION.tar.bz2

Post win32 build (by python version) at [ berlios (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/mapnik) and http://media.mapnik.org.

mapnik-VERSION-win32-pyVERSION.zip
make sure to zip with command line to avoid '__MACOSX/' files

$ zip -9vr mapnik-0.7.1-win32-py25_26.zip mapnik-0.7.1/*