How to Prepare and Issue a New Shark Release

This tutorial is both a checklist and knowledge preservation list for the developing team, and a general information source on the process of a new Shark release.

Packaging

Todo

Insert sufficiently detailed description of the whole package-making process here.

Misc.

• Upgrade copyright notices

Sanity testing

First testing stage:

• All group members should be able to compile/install on their systems.
• All Jenkins machines should be sunny.
• Eliminate as many compiler warnings from all Jenkins build logs as possible.
• Run the Sphinx link checker.
• run the makeastyle script
• Validate all packages as well as the source code package and the documentation package.
• Invite third-party package testers.

Web presence

• Upload complete documentation web section onto web server.
• Upload package files
• Include a new announcement under “News”, including a changelog if possible.

Online sanity testing

Final testing stage:

Announcing

• Write a generic announcement text and distribute on our own mailing lists, plus X