From: Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:12:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Reorder release steps to avoid touching repository after tag
X-Git-Tag: 2.2.0rc1~1102
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30634a7dc987c6ec22b5aaf2de0d171f6943a4b5;p=postgis

Reorder release steps to avoid touching repository after tag

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@12546 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee
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diff --git a/HOWTO_RELEASE b/HOWTO_RELEASE
index 618eb9b3b..fec4c2dfc 100644
--- a/HOWTO_RELEASE
+++ b/HOWTO_RELEASE
@@ -45,22 +45,21 @@ Release procedure
    been reported (extract from ChangeLog).
 3) Edit README.postgis and set release date and version.
 4) Add release notes in doc/release_notes.xml
-5) Commit all your changes
-  a) make sure to run the extensions/make_unpackaged.sql on 
+5) make sure to run the extensions/make_unpackaged.sql on 
     about to release version  and copy contents to  
     (TODO: we need to automate this) 
       postgis/sql_bits/postgis--unpackages.sql.in
       postgis_topology/sql_bits/topology_unpackaged.sql.in
       postgis_tiger_geocoder/sql_bits/tiger_geocoder--unpackaged.sql.in
-6) Tag branch:  
-   svn copy http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/branch/x.x http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/x.x.x
-7) Checkout tag:
-   svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/x.x.x
-8) Update Version.config as specified in Versioning Scheme above. See also 17
-9) Update doc/postgis.xml to download.osgeo.org link 
+6) Update Version.config to drop the "dev" suffix
+7) Update doc/postgis.xml to download.osgeo.org link 
   (note: unreleased are on postgis.net, and released download.osgeo.org )
    Also make sure the correct minimum and lastest geos etc are noted.
-10) Commit your version number change to the tag.
+8) Commit all changes
+9) Tag branch:  
+   svn copy http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/branch/x.x http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/x.x.x
+10) Checkout tag:
+   svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/x.x.x
 11) Run: sh make_dist.sh x.x.x (or use debbie for this)
 12) Copy tarball to web site and edit downloads page
 13) Announce on e-mail