Producing A Release

The following lists the steps involved in preparing a new release of the NST.

The official release of the NST ISO images should only be created on the pristine development machines (under the repo directories on nst-dev-32 and nst-dev-64).

NOTE: As there are often significant changes between releases, these steps should be used and guidelines and revised each time a new release is created.

• Review TODO Comments in "pkginfo.xml" and "*.spec" Files

• Final Merge From Development Area

• Update Package Dependency Lists

• Make Sure Public Repos Are Setup

• Manual Package Updates

• Update The Welcome Page

• Do a Sanity Check

• Check The RELEASE Values

• Update Release Notes

• Build The Manifest

• Commit All Source

• Build and Update the Yum Repository

• Build Initial Release Set

• Check Release Information

• Boot Release

• Tag Source For Release

• Transfer to SourceForge

• Build and Upload NST Virtual Machine

• Update RELEASE

• Update Release Information in the Menus

• Update/Add Manifest and Release Links

• Update Manifest

• Download And Verify MD5 Values

• Commit and Publish HTML Updates

• Merge Changes Back To Development Area

• Make Announcements

• Grab a Beer - You've earned it if you made it this far (you may want to take a shower at this point as well).