[Bf-committers] Release process

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's some confusion happened, so just wanted to clarify some stuff.
>
> - We did not make a final release yet, seems Kent just was too fast on
> making a release archive. Nothing critical i bet, but that confused our
> friends from Debian.
>
> - We do a blender-vVERSION-release branch at the RC stage. This is because
> we unfreeze repository soon after the RC. We used to to tags, but they're
> PITA to re-tag if we're discovering some last-minute missing commit. Now
> we're using the branch and do tags once we're sure ll the builds are good.
> This branch also helps backporting fixes since the RC for until the final
> release is done.
>
> - The name of the branch doesn't imply that we've got final release, it
> only means the final release is getting baked there.
>
> - Tag happens after the builds are up, so we don't mess up with re-tagging.
>
> - The branch gets removed soon after the tagging is done, so we don't
> clutter the branches list.
>
> This is just to inform all the developers involved, so they know a bit
> better the process.
>
> Now, the proposal for Kent: what if i'll be mailing you once we're ready
> for the final release archive? Should help solving confusion like this i
> think.
>
> P.S. Last time we've been a bit late on the sources archive, this time
> we've compensated it by making archive a bit earlier :)
> P.P.S. I've removed the 2.72 sources archive from the download site now.
>
> --
> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin

Sergey & Kent, while on this topic,
Dan McGrath and me worked on a shell script to automate this so its
not a hassle to make a new source archive each release.

https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/build_files/utils/build_tgz.sh

... or you can run `make tgz`