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Releasing Blosc
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:Author: Francesc Alted
:Contact: faltet@gmail.com
:Date: 2012-09-16


Preliminaries
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- Make sure that ``RELEASE_NOTES.rst`` and ``ANNOUNCE.rst`` are up to
  date with the latest news in the release.

- Check that *VERSION* symbols in blosc/blosc.h contains the correct info.

Testing
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Go to the test/ directory and issue::

  $ make test

These tests are very basic, and only valid for platforms where GNU
make/gcc tools are available.  To actually test Blosc the hard way,
look at the end of:

http://blosc.org/trac/wiki/SyntheticBenchmarks

where instructions on how to intensively test (and benchmark) Blosc
are given.

Packaging
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- Unpack the archive of the repository in a temporary directory::

  $ export VERSION="the version number"
  $ mkdir /tmp/blosc-$VERSION
  # IMPORTANT: make sure that you are at the root of the repo now!
  $ git archive master | tar -x -C /tmp/blosc-$VERSION

- And package the repo::

  $ cd /tmp
  $ tar cvfz blosc-$VERSION.tar.gz blosc-$VERSION

Do a quick check that the tarball is sane.


Uploading
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- Go to the downloads section in blosc.org and upload the source
  tarball.


Tagging
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- Create a tag ``X.Y.Z`` from ``master``.  Use the next message::

    $ git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "Tagging version X.Y.Z"

- Push the tag to the github repo::

    $ git push --tags


Announcing
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- Update the release notes in the github wiki:

https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc/wiki/Release-notes

- Send an announcement to the blosc, pytables, carray and
  comp.compression lists.  Use the ``ANNOUNCE.rst`` file as skeleton
  (possibly as the definitive version).

Post-release actions
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- Edit *VERSION* symbols in blosc/blosc.h in master to increment the
  version to the next minor one (i.e. X.Y.Z --> X.Y.(Z+1).dev).

- Create new headers for adding new features in ``RELEASE_NOTES.rst``
  and empty the release-specific information in ``ANNOUNCE.rst`` and
  add this place-holder instead:

  #XXX version-specific blurb XXX#


That's all folks!


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