Avuton Olrich is MPD's release manager.

The release manager is responsible for publishing new releases of MPD and related software. This page is a reference of tasks to do before a release.

Todo Edit

• rebase RM's repository on master
• create temporary tarball ("make distcheck")
• unpack tarball, build from git with all kinds of options enabled and disabled (goal is that every projects has a test.sh which does several compilation runs, to get that automated)
• maybe build on other platforms (BSD, Mac, Solaris, ...?)
• test the application (basic tests - does it work at all?)
• commit a patch which updates NEWS and version number in configure.ac (and push to git.musicpd.org)
• create tarball ("make dist")
• upload tarball to sourceforge
• announce release: MPD forum, MPD home page, freshmeat, ...?
• make package maintainers pick up the new release
• add new product version to mantis

If anything goes wrong during testing, report bugs to mantis and postpone the release.