Redmine

h1. ReleaseProcess

This page described the process for packaging up a new Redmine release.

h2. Stable branches

# Checkout the stable branch (e.g. 0.9-stable)

# Check that all of this releases' issues have been merged into the stable branch.  The Resolved status is used to mark which issues still *need to be merged*.

# Update the locales with @rake locales:update@

# Run the test suite to make sure there are no errors

# Checkout trunk again for these next steps

## Update the @doc/CHANGELOG@ to list the changes

## Check that @doc/INSTALL@ and @doc/UPGRADING@ are correct

## Increment the version number, @lib/redmine/version.rb@

# Checkout the stable branch again and merge these updates to it

# Freeze the current Rails version

# Package up Redmine into a zip and tar.gz. *Make sure no private configuration files are included*

# Create MD5 checksum files for the zip and tar.gz files

# Tag the latest code in svn. e.g @svn cp svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/branches/0.9-stable svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/tags/0.9.5@

# Upload the new release to "Rubyforge":http://rubyforge.org/projects/redmine/

# Create a release announcement for:

## Rubyforge

## Redmine.org

## Redmineblog.com