Re: [linux-distros-dev] Release procedure

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Summers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We should probably have a release procedure.  My thoughts are basically:
> >
> > - when we're satisfied that the latest build on a branch is good, we
> >  should tag that branch and also replace ".qualifier" with an actual
> >  tag and update the map file for that release (tagging it as well)
>
> If you mean replacing .qualifier in the MANIFEST itself, doesn't PDE
> have a mechanism to do that at build time from
> pluginVersions.properties (which in turn gets it from the tag in the
> map file)?

You are correct.  What I mean is hard-coding the qualifier once we're 
ready to cut the release since at this point, we're not tagging SVN with 
each build.

Andrew