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General notes and tips
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1. Do not release on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays
because the sysadmins can not upgrade stuff then.
previous RM's is around to answer questions. For the steps related to the
php/QA/bug websites try to have someone from the webmaster team (Bjori) on hand.
+5. Verify the tags to be extra sure everything was tagged properly.
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Rolling a non stable release (alpha/beta/RC)
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1. Check windows snapshot builder logs (http://snaps.php.net/win32/snapshot-STABLE.log f.e.)
4. tag the repository with the version f.e. "``cvs tag php_4_4_1RC1``"
(of course, you need to change that to the version you're rolling an RC for).
-When making 5.X release, you need to tag the Zend directory separately!!
5. Bump up the version numbers in ``main/php_version.h``, ``configure.in``
and possibly ``NEWS`` again, to the **next** version. F.e. if the release
those are made, they should be placed into the same directory as the source snapshots.
Getting the non stable release announced
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1. Send an email (see example here: http://news.php.net/php.internals/19486)
**To** ``internals@lists.php.net`` and ``php-general@lists.php.net`` lists
a. ``cvs commit include/version.inc include/releases.inc``
Rolling a stable release
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1. Check windows snapshot builder logs (http://snaps.php.net/win32/snapshot-STABLE.log f.e.)
(internals-win@lists.php.net) to prepare the installer packages for Win32.
Getting the stable release announced
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1. Run the bumpRelease script for phpweb on your local checkout