Software Release Cycle

Introduction

I am writing this description to remember what to do when I reach the time to release one of my various projects1, that doesn’t happen often enough for me to remember the whole process and it is tedious enough to hate it when I forget a step. So, I decided to describe it.

First I will explain the version numbers I use. At one time I used the Linux version numbers but when I worked in KDE I’ve seen the beauty of their version numbers (if there’s place for beauty in such a thing).

Then I’ll explain how I create and maintain the various branches, tags and tarballs.
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