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Releasing Tycho
Revision as of 10:55, 4 June 2012 by Jan.sievers.sap.com (Talk | contribs)
This page describes the steps necessary to create releases of the Tycho project.
- Prepare the release notes wiki page which should provide a quick overview of new features and bug fixes
- Steps below apply to both tycho and tycho-extras git repositories as these should normally be released together and with the same version
- Update versions using mvn org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=...
- Commit version change and create a new remote branch tycho-MAJOR.MINOR.x based on this commit in git
- Update versions (same as above) to next SNAPSHOT development version and push commit to master branch
- TODO add steps here
- Generate site docs using mvn clean install site site:stage and check the result in to tycho homepage site docs
- Browse the Tycho wiki pages to update any hardcoded tycho versions to the latest version
- Update tycho-demo projects to the latest release
- Announce the release on tycho-user@eclipse.org, tycho-dev@eclipse.org and the tycho homepage new and noteworthy section
- Edit the list of releases on Tycho project page via the Eclipse portal