These instructions are for building a new lifelines release, in your cvs working directory, and actually releasing it. Fetch latest cvs if desired, eg $ cvs -z3 up -d Edit the version number, setting it to the new release: (Running, eg, "cd build; sh setversions.sh 3.0.19; cd .." does this) (NB: setversions.sh requires bash3) NEWS INSTALL README configure.ac build/rpm/lifelines.spec src/hdrs/version.h build/msvc6/btedit/btedit.rc (4 occurrences) build/msvc6/dbverify/dbVerify.rc (4 occurrences) build/msvc6/llexec/llexec.rc (4 occurrences) build/msvc6/llines/llines.rc (4 occurrences) docs/ll-devguide.xml (2 occurrences) docs/ll-reportmanual.xml (2 occurrences) docs/ll-userguide.xml (2 occurrences) docs/llines.1 (& year & month as well) Run autotools: $ sh autogen.sh Note: There are several reports which do not build correctly in UTF-8 locale. Therefore, if you use a UTF-8 locale, do something like so: export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 Build local copy in ./bld subdirectory: $ rm -rf bld $ mkdir bld $ cd bld $ ../configure $ make Update master message catalog template (for i18n): $ mv ../po/lifelines.pot ../po/lifelines.old.pot $ cd po $ make lifelines.pot $ cd .. Build distribution tarball: $ make dist $ cd .. Add an entry mentioning the new version in the ChangeLog Commit changes (new version number, new message catalogs): $ cvs -z3 ci Announce new version to Free Translation Project. Per: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/maintainers.html <Merely send the URL of a packaged distribution to translation@iro.umontreal.ca. Use the string "DOMAIN-VERSION.pot" somewhere in the subject line of your invoice. Beware that a POT file may only be processed once by the Translation Project.> Free Translation Project page for lifelines: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=lifelines Build any other files (eg, other tarball formats, MS-Windows binary packages, rpm packages). rpm: See README.MAINTAINERS.rpm debian: lifelines is a supported debian package and has a debian maintainer (q.v.) MS-Windows: See README.MAINTAINERS.win32 Go to lifelines admin page, and create a new beta release. Paste in top part of ./NEWS file for ChangeLog entry, and copy & paste release notes from previous beta release, updating md5 signatures to those of new release files. Upload the release files (tarball etc.) to uploads.sourceforge.net. From the release page (above, opened from project admin), refresh and attach the release files, and set properties appropriately (can look at previous releases to see how to set them). Tag the cvs source via (for example, for version 3.0.25) cvs tag v3_0_25 Send an announcement to the LINES-L mailing list (send to user LINES-L at domain LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU).