From 477ae879345190e2a6d6f283378a6357c4c078e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hut <hut@lepus.uberspace.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 23:49:02 +0200
Subject: added doc/release-checklist.txt

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 doc/release-checklist.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/release-checklist.txt

diff --git a/doc/release-checklist.txt b/doc/release-checklist.txt
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+( ) test everything one last time:
+( ) * make test
+( ) * ./ranger.py [--clean]
+( ) * ranger/ext/rifle.py
+( ) * make install
+( ) make a release commit:
+( ) * update the number in the README
+( ) * update the number in ranger/__init__.py
+( ) * update the version number in ranger/ext/rifle.py
+( ) * rebuild the man page with the updated number
+( ) * write changelog entry
+( ) * think of a witty commit message
+( ) * change VERSION in ranger/__init__.py to something with "stable"
+( ) * push the commit
+( ) build .tar.gz with "make snapshot"
+( ) make, make install and test the snapshot one last time
+( ) update the website:
+( ) * add the new version as ranger-stable.tar.gz
+( ) * add the new version as ranger-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
+( ) * update both signatures (gpg -sb <file>)
+( ) * update the changelog
+( ) * update the man page
+( ) * rerun boobies.py
+( ) announce the update
+( ) * to the mailing list
+( ) * in the arch linux forum
+( ) * write a news entry on savannah
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