taskwarrior/doc/devel/contrib/releasing.md

Releasing Taskwarrior

To release Taskwarrior, follow this process:

• Examine the changes since the last version, and update src/commands/CmdNews.cpp accordingly. There are instructions at the top of the file.
• Create a release PR
  • Update version in CMakeLists.txt
  • Update Changelog
  • get this merged
• On develop after that PR merges, create a release tarball:
  • git clone . release-tarball
  • cd release-tarball/
  • cmake -S. -Bbuild
  • make -Cbuild package_source
  • copy build/task-*.tar.gz elsewhere and delete the release-tarball dir
  • NOTE: older releases had a test-*.tar.gz but it's unclear how to generate this
• Update stable to the released commit and push upstream
• Tag the commit as vX.Y.Z and push the tag upstream
• Find the tag under https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior/tags and create a release from it
  • Give it a clever title if you can think of one; refer to previous releases
  • Include the tarball from earlier
• Update https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/tw.org (but see https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/tw.org/pull/1269)
  • Add a new item in content/news
  • Update data/projects.json with the latest version and a fake next version for "devel"
  • Update data/releases.json with the new version, and copy the tarball into content/download.
• Update various things, in a new PR:
  • cargo update
  • git submodule update --remote --merge