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Checklist updates from the website revamp.

I've now made a new section about how to turn on pre-release mode,
because although it's been carefully made trivial within the website
repo itself, there are still several things in other places I need to
edit.

Also added a note to myself to turn off nightly pre-release builds
after the release has gone out. I found on a previous occasion that my
build machine had been building them for months after they were
needed, which was harmless to the website but a waste of CPU!
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Simon Tatham 2016-12-31 17:27:30 +00:00
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Checklists for PuTTY administrative procedures
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Going into pre-release stabilisation
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When we begin to work towards a release and want to enabling
pre-releases on the website:
- Make a branch whose tip will be the current state of the
pre-release. Regardless of whether the branch is from master or
from a prior release branch, the name of the branch must now be in
the form 'pre-X.YZ', or else the website will fail to link to it
properly in gitweb and the build script will check out the wrong
thing.
- Edit ~/adm/puttysnap.sh on my build machine to set $prerelver correctly.
- Edit ~/adm/puttysnap.sh on the master machine to enable pre-release
builds, by changing the 'if false' to 'if true'.
- Put the website into pre-release mode, by defining prerel_version()
in components/Base.mc to return the upcoming version number. Also
add a news announcement in components/news. (Previous naming
convention has been to name it in the form 'X.YZ-pre.mi'.)
Preparing to make a release
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+ Post it to comp.security.ssh.
+ Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.
- Edit ~/adm/puttysnap.sh to disable pre-release builds, if they were
previously enabled.
- Edit the master ~/adm/puttysnap.sh to disable pre-release builds,
if they were previously enabled.
- Relax (slightly).