How to release RawTherapee

How to Release RawTherapee

1. Tea
2. Pull and update
3. Run:

   ./tools/generateTranslationDiffs

   Perform final language file updates.
4. Run:

   dos2unix rtdata/languages/* rtdata/profiles/*

5. Update splash screen, RELEASE_NOTES.txt, AppData, language files, profiles, etc. Once ready, commit to new branch:

   git checkout -b release-5.9
   git commit -a -m "Preparing for release 5.9-rc1"
   git push --set-upstream origin release-5.9

6. Once others have revised the changes, merge this release-5.9 branch into releases:

   git checkout releases
   git pull
   git merge release-5.9

7. Tag and push:

   git tag -a "5.9-rc1" -m "Tagged RawTherapee 5.9-rc1"
   git push origin "5.9-rc1"
   git push

8. Make a source tarball:

   ./tools/generateSourceTarball

   sha1sum rawtherapee-5.9-rc1.tar.xz > rawtherapee-5.9-rc1.tar.xz.sha1

9. Over at GitHub, create a release for the new tag. Copy the description from the previous tag, updating the version as necessary. Attach the source tarball and hash file to the release: https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/tags
10. Upload the source tarball and hash file to the website, to shared/source.
11. Upload Linux/Windows/macOS installers/packages to the website, to shared/builds.
12. Update the website, see https://gitlab.com/patdavid/rawtherapee-web/-/blob/master/README.md

When ready for a final release (5.9, not 5.9-rc1), do as above, merge release-5.9 into releases, tag 5.9, finally deleted branch release-5.9. Never delete branch releases.

Once done with the release, you may need to merge releases back into dev if new commits were made exclusively to the release-5.9 branch. To do that,

1. git checkout releases,
2. Edit RELEASE_NOTES.txt and revert the contents to describe the development build (git show dev:RELEASE_NOTES.txt).
3. Edit the splash screen in Inkscape to revert it to the dev one.
4. git commit -a -m "Preparing to merge back to dev"
5. git checkout dev
6. git merge releases
7. git push