fwupd Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for fwupd in the same format as usual.

git shortlog 0.8.2.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 0.8.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THESE ARE CORRECT
export release_ver="0.8.3"

git commit -a -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}"
git tag -s -f -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

make distcheck

3a. Generate the additon verification metadata

sha1sum fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz > fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz.sha1
gpg -b -a fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:~/public_html/releases

5. Do post release version bump in configure.ac

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
git push
