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Issue created Mar 05, 2018 by Cory Quammen@cory.quammenMaintainer32 of 34 checklist items completed32/34 checklist items

5.5.0-RC2 release

Preparatory steps

  • Announce to paraview-developers@paraview.org

  • Update ParaView guides

    • User manual
      • Uploaded
    • Catalyst guide
      • Uploaded
    • Getting Started
      • Uploaded
  • Update release branch

    • Update version.txt
git fetch origin
git checkout -b update-to-5.5.0-RC2 origin/release
echo 5.5.0-RC2 > version.txt
git add version.txt
git commit -m 'Update version number to 5.5.0-RC2'
git tag -a -m 'ParaView 5.5.0-RC2' v5.5.0-RC2 HEAD
  • Push new ParaView tag
    • git push origin update-to-5.5.0-RC2:release v5.5.0-RC2
    • Create GitLab merge request and merge it.

Create binaries

  • Create source tarballs
    • ParaView (Utilities/Maintenance/create_tarballs.bash --tgz --zip -v v5.5.0-RC2)
    • Catalyst (Catalyst/generate-tarballs.sh v5.5.0-RC2)
  • Upload source tarballs to paraview.org
    • rsync -rptv $tarballs paraview.release:ParaView_Release/v5.5/
  • Build binaries from superbuild
    • Update the superbuild to build from the release tarballs
    • Create a paraview-superbuild merge request targeting release
    • Build binaries (Do: test)

Validating binaries

  • Python
  • import compiler
  • import numpy
  • Plugins are present and load properly
  • Text source LaTeX $A^2$
  • OSPRay
  • AutoMPI

Merge superbuild MR and tag

  • Do: merge if binaries validate successfully
  • Update local release branch from origin/release
  • git tag -a -m 'ParaView 5.5.0-RC2' v5.5.0-RC2 HEAD
  • git push origin v5.5.0-RC2

Upload binaries

  • Sign macOS binary
  • Upload binaries to paraview.org
    • rsync -rptv $binaries paraview.release:ParaView_Release/v5.5/
  • Update md5sum.txt with checksums of new files
  • Update https://www.paraview.org/files/listing.txt
  • Test download links

Post-release

  • Notify paraview@paraview.org and paraview-developers@paraview.org that the release is available.

/cc @ben.boeckel /cc @cory-quammen /cc @utkarsh.ayachit

Edited Mar 08, 2018 by Cory Quammen
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