Things to do when releasing

It is so hard to remember to do everything!

When thinking to the next release

1. Upload po files to Rosetta.
2. Send an announce to the mailing list to open translations.

The release process

1. Retrieve translations from Rosetta.
2. Build source distribution
   python setup.py sdist
3. test the sdist local or on a clean system
4. tag the release
5. let collaborators test the sdist for the tagged release (to avoid non-oblivious packaging errors as with 0.6 beta1)
6. Upload to pypi
   python setup.py sdist upload
7. Upload to Google code site
    http://code.google.com/p/pida/downloads/entry
8. Announce on Freshmeat
    http://freshmeat.net/add-release/54878/
9. Send announcement message to mailing list
    http://groups.google.com/group/pida/post
   
10. Add news to website
     http://pida.co.uk
11. Mark all Fix Committed bugs as Fix Released
     http://tinyurl.com/y4bu6w (launchpad.net)

There are other things we need to sort out like:

1. Gnomefiles
2. Berlios

After the release

Enjoy...