This is a to do list for creating a new release of StrategoXT. ---++ Make sure trunk is ok * The trunk revision must build at all machines of the buildfarm, Cygwin and Mac OS X. * Write news in =news-archive/NEWS-0.XX=. Also add this file to =EXTRA_DIST= in Makefile.am * Collect news items from [[http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/svnlog/StrategoXT/][svnlog]] and JIRA issues. ---++ Make a branch * Make a branch of the trunk * Comment the =XT_PRE_RELEASE= macro in configure.ac ---++ Make distributions * Add a job for this branch to the configuration of the Nix buildfarm. This involves adding a build job in =jobs.conf= and creating a new attribute in the Nix expression =strategoxt..nix=. * Download tarballs, RPM, and SRPM from the Nix releases server to the ftp of Stratego. * Create binaries for Cygwin and Mac OS X, upload to ftp of Stratego. * Create a tag of the branch for this Stratego release. ---++ Announce the release * Update the Stratego Wiki: * Create a topic StrategoRelease0XX with URLs and the news. * Create a topic StrategoRelease0XXIssues with the JIRA release notes. * Point to this new release in StrategoDownload * Update the WebLeftBar topic to the new release * Add a short news item to WebNews * Remove Wiki markup from the news file and send this to =stratego-announce@cs.uu.nl= ---++ Continue with next release * Set the current version of StrategoXT 'released' in JIRA * Trunk: increase the version numbers in all =configure.ac= files. * After a major release: remove obsolete strategies from the Stratego library