Creating a release

• Run the full testsuite (tests\testament\tester all) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)

• Update news.txt

• write a news ticker entry

• Update the version

  • In system.nim

• Recompile koch!

• Generate the full docs; koch web0

• Test the installers: koch testinstall

• Tag the release, e.g. git tag -am "Version 0.15.0" v0.15.0

• Push the tag: git push origin [tagname]

• Run tools/winrelease

• Upload the produced .zips.

• Merge devel into master

• Update csources via koch pushcsources

The following shell script shall be replaced by 'koch unixrelease' Shell script to build a source tarball:

#!/bin/sh
set -eu
tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
cd $tmp_dir
git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git
cd Nim
git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources
( cd csources && sh build.sh )
bin/nim c koch
./koch boot -d:release
./koch web0
PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/bin
./koch csource -d:release
./koch xz -d:release

Website

Uploading the binaries

• scp nim-0.18.0.tar.xz username@servername:/var/www/nim-lang.org/download/nim-0.18.0.tar.xz (change the version obviously)

Generating the sha256's

• ssh username@servername
• cd /var/www/nim-lang.org/download/
• sha256sum nim-0.18.0.tar.xz > nim-0.18.0.tar.xz.sha256

Updating the blog/downloads page

• Create a new blog post in _drafts titled: version-<ver>-released.md where <ver> is the version without any dots, e.g. 0180 for 0.18.0.
• When ready to release:
  • move the blog post into _posts, making sure to append the current date to its filename: 2017-09-31-title.md.
  • modify config.yml's version key to the new version
  • git commit
    • TIP: Here is a real-life example of a commit that signifies a release: https://github.com/nim-lang/website/commit/6f95916dee1212dcf5465d74dcff14e01f714503. The draft blog post was created in earlier commits, but hopefully it's pretty easy to figure out how it was made.
    • TIP2: You can see what a draft post looks like by running jekyll serve --drafts inside the website's jekyll directory.
  • git push live master (the live remote is a strict secret)