How to make an MPlayer release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ preparations: - Ask the DOCS maintainers to commit their final changes, check if all docs are up to date, etc. - Verify man page, remove obsolete options, mention new ones. - Ask translation maintainers to update their help_mp*.h file. - Update the ChangeLog file (according to CVS log), ask other developers to verify their parts, etc. Ask Diego to spellcheck it. - Consult at -dev-eng about unstable parts of the code which should be disabled for the release. create the release tree: - cvs checkout the mplayer src tree - if releasing from 'main', check out libavcodec from FFmpeg CVS - remove the CVS subdirs: find main -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \; - remove the .cvsignore files: find main -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} \; - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files - replace version.sh with this (change version number too...): ============ #!/bin/sh echo "#define VERSION \"1.0pre5-$1 \"" > version.h ============ release the tree: cd .. mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run) copy to FTP: cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/ move the older (pre)release(s) (except the last one before the current one) to ../OLD_stuff/ dir Somehow get Diego to write a news entry for the release, and update the source file of dload.html and commit it. Test it, it's sometimes buggy (broken links etc). Send a message to mplayer-announce mailing list. Done.