This page gather random notes about doing Haiku releases.

Steps

• Fix all the blocking bugs
• Branch the release

svn copy svn+ssh://pulkomandy@svn.haiku-os.org/srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk svn+ssh://pulkomandy@svn.haiku-os.org/srv/svn/repos/haiku/branches/releases/r1alpha3/

• Update the version constants ( hrev36344 , hrev36348 )
• remove the sleeps in the Bootscript
• diable serial debug output (hrev36721)
• Tag the build tools
• Update the build tools in the branch ( hrev36378 )
• Rebuild the optional packages
• Fix any remaining bugs and do general polishing. Give some preview to people so they can test it.
• import user guide (hrev36743, hrev36744)
• Freeze the branch
• Make the branch official ( hrev36768 )
• Tag the branch

Note: see wiki:SandBox?version=5