How To Release a New Parted

David Cantrell has a document about this to upload.

And see CommentsFromJim.

Take care of these tasks as a matter of course during development, then finalize and check them off before release -

  1. Update regression tests.
  2. Run regression tests.
  3. Test supported platforms (see manual).
  4. Update release notes (README?).
  5. Update copyright dates for modified files.
  6. Update parted manual, including index.
  7. Update parted help command.
  8. Update man pages.

Take care of these before release -

  1. Update parted manual copyright and history.
  2. Update copyright message for --version.
  3. Check other docs--see PartedDocumentation.

Then actually release!

Copy to repositories and update info there.

  1. GNU project pages - see scripts/release/tarball_upload.sh
  2. freshmeat project page
  3. ?