These are some notes pertaining to the R1 Alpha 2 release cycle.

The order is semi-random. Feel free to make additions.

For now, it's on this page & in the future it may be moved elsewhere or deleted entirely.

Hindsight

• Release Notes
  • stub out & mention ​http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/*/ImportantAddendum
• Add an additional day, in between testing final image & release -- to allow rsync mirrors

Before Branching

• ​http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/ReleaseRoadMap
• & create related TracWiki pages
  • Feature Proposals
  • Status and Task Coordination
  • Release Notes
  • ( Important Addendum )
  • Rebuilding Optional Package Tracker
  • In the Press
  • Reported Issues
  • Improvements Since Release

After Branching

• MergeTracking script
• Organize the press release
  • who can translate it
  • where to send it for review
    • neet to allow project members to review/edit it as needed.
    • unpublished article on Drupal?
    • google doc?
    • private repository?

a checklist of features to test

• booting & installing CD/DVD
• bash script to run each and every application, to check for non-zero exit code

  #!/bin/bash
  # not functional code
  for binary in $AllBinaries; do 
    ( ${binary} --help &> /dev/null ) || ( echo ${binary} exitted $? >> non-zero.log )
  done
  

Before Tagging

• disable serial debugging
• remove the sleeps in the Bootscript
• build/jam/ReleaseBuildProfiles

  # Uncomment in official release branch.
  HAIKU_DEFINES += HAIKU_OFFICIAL_RELEASE ;
  TARGET_DEFINES += HAIKU_OFFICIAL_RELEASE ;
  

After Tagging

• Trac Administration
  • create new default 'version'
  • close current milestone
• create the following wiki pages
  • InThePress
  • ReportedIssues
  • ImprovementsSinceRelease
• Internal Testing
  • harvest public keys from svn.haiku-os.org
  • sudo bash ; export allkeys=`find /home -type f -name "authorized_key*"` ; for key in $allkeys; do cat $key >> allkeys.pub ; done
• Create tar.xz sources for Haiku & Buildtools
  • tar --exclude=.svn -cJf <archive>.tar.xz directory/
• Copy all sources to ​http://haiku-files.org/files/releases/r1alpha2/sources/
  • simply allow the .OptionalPackageDescriptions & InstallSourceArchive to point to ​http://haiku-files.org/files/sources

Mirrors =

Automatic rsync mirrors

TBD

Manual upload/push mirrors

TBD

Installing files for rsync

Include all image archive files, md5sums.txt, *.torrent, sources/

baron.haiku-os.org
/srv/rsync/haiku-mirror-seed/releases/

Flipping the switch

• update ​http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/ReleaseRoadMap to display Release date & revision

Graphics

• Stamp
• HAIKU logo with ladybugs & stamp
• Installer logo
• Desktop logo (though, do not enable it)
• Frontpage download graphic
• CD/DVD graphic

Website Pages

• Official Article
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-notes
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/installation-guide
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/burn-cd
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/making_haiku_usb_stick
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-tour
• ​http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html -- sync with branch or tag.

Installing Drupal's front page graphic

sudo bash
cd /srv/www/drupal/haiku-os.org/themes/shijin/haiku-images
mv bg-download-box.png GET-HAIKU-download-box-r1a1.png
cp GET-HAIKU-download-box-r1a2.png bg-download-box.png