cURLable text file available here, in case you wish neither to clone the repo nor use the GitHub web UI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnustep/libs-gui/e2f3923e1361c4f5e38f255557c465abe03b41a9/ANNOUNCE
Now, further remarks: This release will be created using something called an "annotated tag" in Git. Annotated tags are not merely references to a commit, but they are otherwise objects in their own right, and have an author, date and a commit message of their own. GitHub (and probably other similar systems) expose them as 'releases'. Instead of having to attach a message using web UI, the tag commit message will be used. This means whatever we deploy as a tag commit message, we can take out when we move from GitHub. As a less practical, but more of a fun thing, I won't be creating just an annotated tag but a GPG-signed annotated tag. This means users can use 'git tag -v gui-0_26_0' to check that the signer claims this release is genuine. I will be using my personal GPG key for this, as that will be appropriately displayed in systems that support displaying that a tag has been correctly signed. If I were to use the GNUstep Maintainers key, it would not be appropriately displayed as released by my account. Actual signature *will* be performed with the correct maintainer GPG key! You can see all this in action here: https://github.com/ivucica/libs-gui/releases/tag/gui-0_26_0 (You may observe that this is not pushed to the mainline repo. That is because this is *not* yet the 0.26.0 release; I've tagged it only for preview. Actual tag will be pushed to the main GNUstep repository for libs-gui. I've manually marked the release as pre-release.) Preview, prerelease, not-actually-0.26.0 tarball and personally-signed-.sig (use curl -L to download): https://github.com/ivucica/libs-gui/releases/download/gui-0_26_0/gnustep-gui-0.26.0.tar.gz https://github.com/ivucica/libs-gui/releases/download/gui-0_26_0/gnustep-gui-0.26.0.tar.gz.sig To facilitate cutting this release, I have updated gnustep-make. It now has targets 'git-tag' and 'git-dist' which behave similar to 'svn-tag' and 'svn-dist', except that they operate on local repo only. They use annotated tags, support keysigning and using a text file as the source for the tag commit message. All tagging and releasing operations are on the local repository; pushing tags to a public repository is left to the developer invoking these convenience commands. I've opted to ask for a review of the changes to gnustep-make in case I use some incompatible feature of GNU Make, or if it's incomprehensible. If there are no significant comments, I will merge this shortly. https://github.com/gnustep/tools-make/pull/3 or https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/gnustep/tools-make/pull/3.patch It should affect only people using gnustep-make to cut releases for their software. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
