| 1 | Checklists for PuTTY administrative procedures |
| 2 | ============================================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Locations of the licence |
| 5 | ------------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The PuTTY copyright notice and licence are stored in quite a few |
| 8 | places. At the start of a new year, the copyright year needs |
| 9 | updating in all of them; and when someone sends a massive patch, |
| 10 | their name needs adding in all of them too. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | The LICENCE file in the main source distribution: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - putty/LICENCE |
| 15 | |
| 16 | The resource files: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - putty/pageant.rc |
| 19 | + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and |
| 20 | once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! |
| 21 | - putty/puttygen.rc |
| 22 | + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and |
| 23 | once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! |
| 24 | - putty/win_res.rc |
| 25 | + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and |
| 26 | once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! |
| 27 | - putty/mac/mac_res.r |
| 28 | - putty/unix/gtkdlg.c |
| 29 | + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and |
| 30 | once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both! |
| 31 | |
| 32 | The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix): |
| 33 | |
| 34 | - putty/doc/blurb.but |
| 35 | - putty/doc/licence.but |
| 36 | |
| 37 | The website: |
| 38 | |
| 39 | - putty-website/licence.html |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Before tagging a release |
| 42 | ------------------------ |
| 43 | |
| 44 | For a long time we got away with never checking the current version |
| 45 | number into CVS at all - all version numbers were passed into the |
| 46 | build system on the compiler command line, and the _only_ place |
| 47 | version numbers showed up in CVS was in the tag information. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Unfortunately, those halcyon days are gone, and we do need the |
| 50 | version number in CVS in a couple of places. These must be updated |
| 51 | _before_ tagging a new release. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | The file used to generate the Unix snapshot version numbers (which |
| 54 | are <previousrelease>-<date> so that the Debian versioning system |
| 55 | orders them correctly with respect to releases): |
| 56 | |
| 57 | - putty/LATEST.VER |
| 58 | |
| 59 | The Windows installer script: |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - putty/putty.iss |
| 62 | |
| 63 | The Mac resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the 'vers' |
| 64 | resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means): |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - putty/mac/version.r |
| 67 | |
| 68 | It might also be worth going through the documentation looking for |
| 69 | version numbers - we have a couple of transcripts showing the help |
| 70 | text from the command-line tools, and it would be nice to ensure the |
| 71 | whole transcripts (certainly including the version numbers) are up |
| 72 | to date. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - putty/doc/pscp.but |
| 75 | - putty/doc/plink.but |
| 76 | - putty/doc/psftp.but (in case it ever acquires a similar thing) |
| 77 | |
| 78 | The actual release procedure |
| 79 | ---------------------------- |
| 80 | |
| 81 | This is the procedure I (SGT) currently follow (or _should_ follow |
| 82 | :-) when actually making a release, once I'm happy with the position |
| 83 | of the tag. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | - Write a release announcement (basically a summary of the changes |
| 86 | since the last release). Squirrel it away in |
| 87 | ixion:src/putty/local/announce-<ver> in case it's needed again |
| 88 | within days of the release going out. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | - On my local machines, check out the release-tagged version of the |
| 91 | sources. |
| 92 | + Make sure to run mkfiles.pl _after_ this checkout, just in |
| 93 | case. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | - Build the Windows/x86 release binaries. Don't forget to supply |
| 96 | VER=/DRELEASE=<ver>. Run them, or at least one or two of them, to |
| 97 | ensure that they really do report their version number correctly. |
| 98 | + Save the release link maps. Currently I keep these on ixion, |
| 99 | in src/putty/local/maps-<version>. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | - Acquire the Windows/alpha release binaries from Owen. |
| 102 | + Verify the snapshot-key signatures on these, to ensure they're |
| 103 | really the ones he built. If I'm going to snapshot-sign a zip |
| 104 | file I make out of these, I'm damn well going to make sure the |
| 105 | binaries that go _into_ it were snapshot-signed themselves. |
| 106 | + Make sure Owen has kept the Alpha release link maps somewhere |
| 107 | useful. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | - Run Halibut to build the docs. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | - Build the .zip files. |
| 112 | + The binary archive putty.zip just contains all the .exe files |
| 113 | except PuTTYtel, and the .hlp and .cnt files. |
| 114 | + The source archive putty-src.zip is built by puttysnap.sh (my |
| 115 | cron script that also builds the nightly snapshot source |
| 116 | archive). |
| 117 | + The docs archive puttydoc.zip contains all the HTML files |
| 118 | output from Halibut. |
| 119 | |
| 120 | - Build the installer. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | - Sign the release (gpg --detach-sign). |
| 123 | + Sign the locally built x86 binaries, the locally built x86 |
| 124 | binary zipfile, and the locally built x86 installer, with the |
| 125 | release keys. |
| 126 | + The Alpha binaries should already have been signed with the |
| 127 | snapshot keys. Having checked that, sign the Alpha binary |
| 128 | zipfile with the snapshot keys too. |
| 129 | + The source archive should be signed with the release keys. |
| 130 | This was the most fiddly bit of the last release I did: the |
| 131 | script that built the source archive was on ixion, so I had to |
| 132 | bring the archive back to my local machine, check everything |
| 133 | in it was untampered-with, and _then_ sign it. Perhaps next |
| 134 | time I should arrange that puttysnap.sh can run on my local |
| 135 | box; it'd be a lot easier. |
| 136 | + Don't forget to sign with both DSA and RSA keys for absolutely |
| 137 | everything. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | - Begin to pull together the release directory structure. |
| 140 | + subdir `x86' containing the x86 binaries, x86 binary zip, x86 |
| 141 | installer, and all signatures on the above. |
| 142 | + subdir `alpha' containing the Alpha binaries, Alpha binary |
| 143 | zip, and all signatures on the above. |
| 144 | + top-level dir contains the source zip (plus signatures), |
| 145 | puttydoc.txt, the .hlp and .cnt files, and puttydoc.zip. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | - Create and sign md5sums files: one in the x86 subdir, one in the |
| 148 | alpha subdir, and one in the parent dir of both of those. |
| 149 | + The md5sums files need not list the .DSA and .RSA signatures, |
| 150 | and the top-level md5sums need not list the other two. |
| 151 | + Sign the md5sums files (gpg --clearsign). The Alpha md5sums |
| 152 | should be signed with the snapshot keys, but the other two |
| 153 | with the release keys (yes, the top-level one includes some |
| 154 | Alpha files, but I think people will understand). |
| 155 | |
| 156 | - Now double-check by verifying all the signatures on all the |
| 157 | files. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | - Create subdir `htmldoc' in the release directory, which should |
| 160 | contain exactly the same set of HTML files that went into |
| 161 | puttydoc.zip. |
| 162 | |
| 163 | - Now the whole release directory should be present and correct. |
| 164 | Upload to ixion:www/putty/<ver>, upload to |
| 165 | chiark:ftp/putty-<ver>, and upload to the:www/putty/<ver>. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | - Update the HTTP redirects. |
| 168 | + Update the one at the:www/putty/htaccess which points the |
| 169 | virtual subdir `latest' at the actual latest release dir. TEST |
| 170 | THIS ONE - it's quite important. |
| 171 | + ixion:www/putty/.htaccess has an individual redirect for each |
| 172 | version number. Add a new one. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | - Update the FTP symlink (chiark:ftp/putty-latest -> putty-<ver>). |
| 175 | |
| 176 | - Update web site. |
| 177 | + Adjust front page (`the latest version is <ver>'). |
| 178 | + Adjust filename of installer on links in Download page. |
| 179 | + Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing |
| 180 | `are new' in previous version to `were new'!) |
| 181 | |
| 182 | - Check the Docs page links correctly to the release docs. (It |
| 183 | should do this automatically, owing to the `latest' HTTP |
| 184 | redirect.) |
| 185 | |
| 186 | - Check that the web server attaches the right content type to .HLP |
| 187 | and .CNT files. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | - Run webupdate, so that all the changes on ixion propagate to |
| 190 | chiark. Important to do this _before_ announcing that the release |
| 191 | is available. |
| 192 | |
| 193 | - Announce the release! |
| 194 | + Mail the announcement to putty-announce. |
| 195 | + Post it to comp.security.ssh. |
| 196 | + Mention it in <TDHIS> on mono. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | - All done. Probably best to run `cvs up -A' now, or I'll only |
| 199 | forget in a few days' time and get confused... |