Release procedure

Note

This is internal documentation for the Zope Toolkit release team to create official Zope Toolkit releases.

Steps for creating a new release

• Get a checkout of svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zopetoolkit

• check the buildbots for failing tests

• Check the ztk-versions.cfg and zopeapp-versions.cfg file for outdated or updated packages and update version information where necessary. Run:

  bin/checkversions -l 2 ztk-versions.cfg
  bin/checkversions -l 2 zopeapp-versions.cfg

  to check them. Give the buildbots a day to test the new set on all platforms.

  Note

  This will change depending on ccomb’s buildbot to automatically update versions.

• review index.rst

• tag the release. For example:

  svn cp svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zopetoolkit/branches/1.0
  svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zopetoolkit/tags/1.0.1

• create the release specific download index on download.zope.org (requires login credentials on download.zope.org. In case of problems contact Jens Vagelpohl)

  • login to download.zope.org

  • change to user zope:

    sudo su - zope

  • create the download index (e.g. for Zope Toolkit 1.0a1):

    /var/zope/zope2index/bin/ztk_kgs tags/1.0a1 /var/www/download.zope.org/zopetoolkit/index/1.0a1

• Send an announcement on the zope-dev list (based on previous ones), and spread the info.