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Maintaining

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Releasing

When we enter RC stage...

  • ensure that version in CMakeLists.txt is the right one
  • translations should be updated (see below)
  • RC releases can be created simply with git tags (preferably signed)

For final releases, we want to create an archive manually, additionally to the tag. This is to ensure that we have a persistent archive for a given version. The procedure looks like that.

export version=0.7.2
export tag=v${version}
git tag -s -m "Release ${tag}" ${tag}
git archive --prefix=pnmixer-${version}/ --format=tar.gz -o pnmixer-${version}.tar.gz ${tag}
sha256sum --tag pnmixer-${version}.tar.gz > SHA256
gpg --armor --detach-sig SHA256
gpg --armor --detach-sig pnmixer-${version}.tar.gz
signify -S -s pnmixer_signify.sec  -e -m SHA256
unset tag version

Then upload the files SHA256, SHA256.asc, SHA256.sig, pnmixer-${version}.tar.gz and pnmixer-${version}.tar.gz.asc to the GitHub release page.

Translating

When a new version of PNMixer is about to be released, we need to inform the Translation Project so that they can update the translations. The TP just needs to know where to download an up to date archive of PNMixer. This archive must contain an up to date POT file.

The TP is considered as our upstream when it comes to the PO files. Our job is to provide them an updated version of the POT file before each new release, and their job is to provide us with freshly translated PO files. There should be no exception to this workflow. We should never modify the PO files ourselves, and we should never accept translations from another channel than the TP.

In order to update the POT file, one has to run the following command from the build directory.

make -C po update-pot
# Then commit the new POT file

The procedure for announcing a new version of PNMixer to the TP is thoroughly described on the maintainters page. In a nutshell, send a mail to [email protected], use pnmixer-<version>.pot as the subject, and include in the body the url of the new PNMixer archive.

So, let's sum up the steps to follow to update the translations.

  • update the pot file, commit.
  • tag a new version (don't forget to bump the version where need be), commit.
  • push the changes and the tags.
  • have a look on the GitHub release page, copy the url of the tar.gz archive.
  • send a mail to the TP with this url.

Please note that the TP will process a POT file only once, so another submission must use a newer version.

To know about the current translation status, visit the pnmixer textual domain page on the TP. Whenever translations are updated, we (elboulangero) get notified by email.

The latest translations can be imported back in PNMixer at any time, using the following command.

rsync -Lrtvz --exclude=ru.po --exclude=zh_CN.po \
    translationproject.org::tp/latest/pnmixer/ po/
# Then commit the new PO files

As you can see, we exclude two translations. The reason is that I accepted these translations as solo patches some time ago, and afterwards got in touch with the TP about this matter, which resulted in having the two languages marked as external. Nobody will update it on the TP side, and our local versions are newer, so we must exclude it from the rsync.

We can live with that, but if the authors of these two translations don't show up to provide up to date versions, we should get back in touch with the TP and try to sort that out. Ultimately, we want no exception of this kind, only translations from the TP.

Anyway.

After importing translations, don't forget to:

  • update the translators list in the "About" dialog.
  • update the ChangeLog.
  • if new languages have been added, add them to the file po/LINGUAS.