monitoring-plugins/doc/RELEASING

NOTES ON RELEASING NEW VERSION OF NAGIOSPLUG

svn update in main area
. tools/devmode, if feeling adventurous
check compilation, check tinderbox screens

Update BUGS, NEWS file
Update AUTHORS if new members
Update configure.in and package.def with version
Run svn2cl (get from http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl):
svn2cl.sh --break-before-msg --reparagraph -i http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk
commit BUGS NEWS configure.in package.def ChangeLog

svn copy http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk 
http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/tags/release-1.4.10

checkout new version:
cd /tmp
rm -fr nagiosplug
svn export http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/tags/release-1.4.10 nagiosplug
cd nagiosplug
tools/setup
./configure
make dist

ftp upload.sf.net
anonymous/email
bin
cd /incoming
put file

SF -> Submit News about release. Make sure it is called "Nagios Plugins" (with those caps)
Link to download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29880
Include contents of NEWS for this release
List all people on team involved. 
Add acknowledgement to contributors
Submit. Get URL to news item

SF -> Admin -> File Releases
Add a release to nagiosplug and create a file release
Name: 1.4.1 
Create release
Step 1: Add release notes pointing to news item
Step 2: add file
Step 3: *.tar.gz, Platform Independent, Source .gz
Step 4: Send notice

Send email to nagiosplug-help, nagios-announce with the news text
Add a news item to http://nagiosplugins.org