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