[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 0.9.0 tagged

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Hi,

Recently I was superbusy with my daily job and still am, so I had not
time to prepare any release status. In short, everything went smooth,
we haven't reached the goal of <100 bugreports, on the contrary, we
have more that before release preparation started thanks to extensive
testing.

But all show-stoppers are gone, except one which occurs on 64bits
builds in Simon engine, but that one required retesting on both kind of
platforms and considering the fact that officially we don't offer any
64bits build (i.e. somebody should build by himself), we may eventually
fix it in trunk, backport to branch-0-9-0 and ask those users to
compile different sources :).

I tagged scummvm and tools several minutes ago. This is our first SVN
tag. Tagging there is simple directory copying, so no retagging will be
required and if there will be some superhot fixes (I hope not), just
commit to appropriate directory.

To get tagged sources either svn up in root scummvm directory (it is
recommended to have full checkout for each developer), or checkout

  https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scummvm/scummvm/tags/release-0-9-0
  https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scummvm/tools/tags/release-0-9-0

Future schedule is:

Wednesday, June 21st - tagging

  o Release tagging. Documentation updated, tarball created
  o Porters start to submit their builds

Sunday, June 25th - release

  o Release date
  o Release announced on usual set of news sites
  o Website updated


Porters and port builders may start building binaries and uploading
them to

  ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming

(Please, drop me a line with exact file name of your uploaded binary).

I will announce the release at Thursday 00:00, but please, upload your
binaries ASAP, so sf.net mirrors will pick up them.

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-0.9.0.tar.bz2
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-0.9.0.tar.gz
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-0.9.0.zip

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/tools-0.9.0.tar.bz2
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/tools-0.9.0.tar.gz
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/tools-0.9.0.tar.zip

OSDN is primary mirror, so use that, i.e:

  http://osdn.dl.sf.net/sourceforge/scummvm/scummvm-0.8.2.tar.bz2

Please, make sure that you name your tarballs consistently, i.e.:

  "scummvm-VERSION-PORT.EXTENSION". For example:
  "scummvm-0.9.0-macosx.dmg".

Exclusion to this naming scheme is Debian.

Also a question on which files to include into release archives was
raised. Here is recommended list:

  AUTHORS
  COPYING
  NEWS
  README (generic ScummVM one)
  modern.zip (if your port uses new GUI)
  modern.ini (if your port uses new GUI)
  your build binary
  your build-specific README (optional)
  whatever else

Please, let's be uniform in this aspect as well across our ports.


Eugene