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Checklists for PuTTY administrative procedures
==============================================
Locations of the licence
------------------------
The PuTTY copyright notice and licence are stored in quite a few
places. At the start of a new year, the copyright year needs
updating in all of them; and when someone sends a massive patch,
their name needs adding in all of them too.
The LICENCE file in the main source distribution:
- putty/LICENCE
The resource files:
- putty/pageant.rc
+ the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
- putty/puttygen.rc
+ the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
- putty/win_res.rc
+ the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
- putty/mac/mac_res.r
The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix):
- putty/doc/blurb.but
- putty/doc/licence.but
The website:
- putty-website/licence.html
Before tagging a release
------------------------
For a long time we got away with never checking the current version
number into CVS at all - all version numbers were passed into the
build system on the compiler command line, and the _only_ place
version numbers showed up in CVS was in the tag information.
Unfortunately, those halcyon days are gone, and we do need the
version number in CVS in a couple of places. These must be updated
_before_ tagging a new release.
The file used to generate the Unix snapshot version numbers (which
are <previousrelease>-<date> so that the Debian versioning system
orders them correctly with respect to releases):
- putty/LATEST.VER
The Windows installer script:
- putty/putty.iss
The Mac resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the 'vers'
resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means):
- putty/mac/version.r
The actual release procedure
----------------------------
This is the procedure I (SGT) currently follow (or _should_ follow
:-) when actually making a release, once I'm happy with the position
of the tag.
- Write a release announcement (basically a summary of the changes
since the last release). Squirrel it away in
ixion:src/putty/local/announce-<ver> in case it's needed again
within days of the release going out.
- On my local machines, check out the release-tagged version of the
sources.
+ Make sure to run mkfiles.pl _after_ this checkout, just in
case.
- Build the Windows/x86 release binaries. Don't forget to supply
VER=/DRELEASE=<ver>. Run them, or at least one or two of them, to
ensure that they really do report their version number correctly.
- Acquire the Windows/alpha release binaries from Owen.
+ Verify the snapshot-key signatures on these, to ensure they're
really the ones he built. If I'm going to snapshot-sign a zip
file I make out of these, I'm damn well going to make sure the
binaries that go _into_ it were snapshot-signed themselves.
- Run Halibut to build the docs.
- Build the .zip files.
+ The binary archive putty.zip just contains all the .exe files
except PuTTYtel, and the .hlp and .cnt files.
+ The source archive putty-src.zip is built by puttysnap.sh (my
cron script that also builds the nightly snapshot source
archive).
+ The docs archive puttydoc.zip contains all the HTML files
output from Halibut.
- Build the installer.
- Sign the release (gpg --detach-sign).
+ Sign the locally built x86 binaries, the locally built x86
binary zipfile, and the locally built x86 installer, with the
release keys.
+ The Alpha binaries should already have been signed with the
snapshot keys. Having checked that, sign the Alpha binary
zipfile with the snapshot keys too.
+ The source archive should be signed with the release keys.
This was the most fiddly bit of the last release I did: the
script that built the source archive was on ixion, so I had to
bring the archive back to my local machine, check everything
in it was untampered-with, and _then_ sign it. Perhaps next
time I should arrange that puttysnap.sh can run on my local
box; it'd be a lot easier.
+ Don't forget to sign with both DSA and RSA keys for absolutely
everything.
- Begin to pull together the release directory structure.
+ subdir `x86' containing the x86 binaries, x86 binary zip, x86
installer, and all signatures on the above.
+ subdir `alpha' containing the Alpha binaries, Alpha binary
zip, and all signatures on the above.
+ top-level dir contains the source zip (plus signatures),
puttydoc.txt, the .hlp and .cnt files, and puttydoc.zip.
- Create and sign md5sums files: one in the x86 subdir, one in the
alpha subdir, and one in the parent dir of both of those.
+ The md5sums files need not list the .DSA and .RSA signatures,
and the top-level md5sums need not list the other two.
+ Sign the md5sums files (gpg --clearsign). The Alpha md5sums
should be signed with the snapshot keys, but the other two
with the release keys (yes, the top-level one includes some
Alpha files, but I think people will understand).
- Now double-check by verifying all the signatures on all the
files.
- Create subdir `htmldoc' in the release directory, which should
contain exactly the same set of HTML files that went into
puttydoc.zip.
- Now the whole release directory should be present and correct.
Upload to ixion:www/putty/<ver>, upload to
chiark:ftp/putty-<ver>, and upload to the:www/putty/<ver>.
- Update the HTTP redirects.
+ Update the one at the:www/putty/htaccess which points the
virtual subdir `latest' at the actual latest release dir. TEST
THIS ONE - it's quite important.
+ ixion:www/putty/.htaccess has an individual redirect for each
version number. Add a new one.
- Update the FTP symlink (chiark:ftp/putty-latest -> putty-<ver>).
- Update web site.
+ Adjust front page (`the latest version is <ver>').
+ Adjust filename of installer on links in Download page.
+ Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing
`are new' in previous version to `were new'!)
- Check the Docs page links correctly to the release docs. (It
should do this automatically, owing to the `latest' HTTP
redirect.)
- Check that the web server attaches the right content type to .HLP
and .CNT files.
- Run webupdate, so that all the changes on ixion propagate to
chiark. Important to do this _before_ announcing that the release
is available.
- Announce the release!
+ Mail the announcement to putty-announce.
+ Post it to comp.security.ssh.
+ Mention it in <TDHIS> on mono.
- All done. Probably best to run `cvs up -A' now, or I'll only
forget in a few days' time and get confused...