make NEWS.xml
-4. Open the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file and:
-
- - comment out the paragraphs about snapshot releases
- - comment out the following line:
-
- <xi:include href="NEWS.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/article/sect1)"/>
-
- - uncomment the paragraphs about official releases
-
-5. Open the NEWS.xml file in your text/XML editor, select the
+4. Open the NEWS.xml file in your text/XML editor, select the
sect1 section and all its child content, and paste that into
the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, as the first sect1 child of the
RELEASE-NOTES.xml file's root article element.
-6. Add a variablelist with a varlistentry instance for each major
- significant change made in this release that merits special
- mention in the release notes; generally, that means every major
- enhancement.
+5. In the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, add a variablelist with a
+ varlistentry instance for each major significant change made in
+ this release that merits special mention in the release notes;
+ generally, that means every major enhancement.
-7. In the content you have just pasted in, go through each sect2
- section and manually remove any listitem instances that have
- content which doesn't need to be included in the final release
- notes. In general, that means removing most bug fixes and
- "housekeeping" changes that do not need to be exposed to users,
- but changes for feature enhancements or changes to public APIs.
+6. In the RELEASE-NOTES.xml, in the content you have just pasted
+ in, go through each sect2 section and manually remove any
+ listitem instances that have content which doesn't need to be
+ included in the final release notes. In general, that means
+ removing most bug fixes and "housekeeping" changes that do not
+ need to be exposed to users, but changes for feature
+ enhancements or changes to public APIs.
-8. After making all changes/additions to the RELEASE-NOTES.xml
+7. After making all changes/additions to the RELEASE-NOTES.xml
file, check it back in with
svn commit -m "Updated for 1.NN.N release" RELEASE-NOTES.xml
<fm:Version>1.73.1-pre</fm:Version>
-5. Open the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file and:
-
-6. Comment out the "These are the release notes for the DocBook
- XSL Stylesheets..." paragraph.
-
-7. Uncomment the paragraphs about "snapshot" releases.
-
-8. Uncomment the following line:
-
- <xi:include href="NEWS.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/article/sect1)"/>
-
-9. Check the VERSION and RELEASE-NOTES.xml files back in.
+9. Check the VERSION file back in.
svn commit \
- -m "Restored VERSION and RELEASE-NOTES.xml files to snapshot state" \
- VERSION RELEASE-NOTES.xml
+ -m "Restored VERSION file to snapshot state" VERSION
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