How to release RawTherapee

1. Tea

2. Pull and update

3. Run: ./tools/generateTranslationDiffs

   Perform final language file updates.

4. Run: dos2unix rtdata/languages/* rtdata/profiles/*

5. Update splash screen, RELEASE_NOTES.txt, AppData, language files, profiles, etc. Once ready, commit to new branch:

   :git checkout -b release-5.10
   :git commit -a -m "Preparing for release 5.10-rc1"
   :git push --set-upstream origin release-5.10
   

6. Once others have revised the changes, merge this release-5.10 branch into releases:

   :git checkout releases
   :git pull
   :git merge release-5.10
   

7. Tag and push:

   :git tag -a "5.10-rc1" -m "Tagged RawTherapee 5.10-rc1"
   :git push origin "5.10-rc1"
   :git push
   

8. Make a source tarball: ./tools/generateSourceTarball

   sha1sum rawtherapee-5.10-rc1.tar.xz > rawtherapee-5.10-rc1.tar.xz.sha1
   

9. Over at GitHub, create a release for the new tag. Copy the description from the previous tag, updating the version as necessary. Attach the source tarball and hash file to the release: https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/tags

10. Upload the source tarball and hash file to the website, to shared/source.

11. Upload Linux/Windows/macOS installers/packages to the website, to shared/builds.

12. Update the website, see https://gitlab.com/patdavid/rawtherapee-web/-/blob/master/README.md

    1. cd into your cloned website repo and run hugo (no arguments) to generate the static website in the /public folder.
    2. Log in via ssh, cd rawtherapee.com/web/ and run ./danger_cleanup_hugo.sh to delete the contents of the public folder without deleting files placed there manually and used by third-party services (screenshots for appdata, etc).
    3. Then upload everything from inside your local public folder.

When ready for a final release (5.10, not 5.10-rc1), do as above, merge release-5.10 into releases, tag 5.10, finally deleted branch release-5.10. Never delete branch releases.

Once done with the release, you may need to merge releases back into dev if new commits were made exclusively to the release-5.10 branch. To do that,

1. git checkout releases,
2. Edit RELEASE_NOTES.txt and revert the contents to describe the development build (git show dev:RELEASE_NOTES.txt).
3. Edit the splash screen in Inkscape to revert it to the dev one.
4. git commit -a -m "Preparing to merge back to dev"
5. git checkout dev
6. git merge releases
7. git push