[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/admin/make-tarball.txt,v

[Nick Roberts]

CVSROOT:        /sources/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Nick Roberts <nickrob>  07/04/25 01:26:05

Index: make-tarball.txt
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/admin/make-tarball.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- make-tarball.txt    18 Nov 2006 21:47:06 -0000      1.19
+++ make-tarball.txt    25 Apr 2007 01:26:05 -0000      1.20
@@ -76,7 +76,24 @@
 14. For a pretest, let Richard Stallman <address@hidden> know about the new 
pretest and
     tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared.  Remind
     him to set a Reply-to header to <address@hidden>.
-    For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself,
+
+> If no major problems with the April 16 pretest come to light, we
+> should cut the Emacs 22 CVS branch on Friday, April 20, and release
+> Emacs 22.1 on Monday, April 23.
+
+15. Shortly before the release, cut the branch with the following commands:
+
+    cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
+    cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
+
+where `NUMBER' is the major version number of the release.  This makes it
+easier to  see what changes have been applied to the branch with:
+
+    cvs diff -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC
+
+or merge changes back to the trunk with "cvs update -j", if necessary.
+
+16. For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself,
     possibly starting from a previous announcment.
 
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