Yi/PreparingARelease

Preparing a release for Yi is not as trivial as it seems: there are quite a few people interested, and screwing up is therefore not good :)

I advise the following steps:

1. Make sure the quality is acceptable
2. Update the contributors list
3. Prepare a source tarball
4. Prepare haddocked API html
5. Test it; in particular, make sure Yi can be cabal-installed easily.
6. Have yi-devel people test it (as above)
7. When ok, tag the version with release number and make corresponding tarball.
8. Prepare release notes
   • release notes should be hosted on a server that can stand a bit of load; 0.2 release took down haskell.org because the Yi wiki page was posted on Reddit. There should at least be some buffer between what will endup in news and the wiki page.
   • screenshots are nice, think of including one.
9. Upload tarball on Hackage
10. Upload doc (Hackage too?)
11. post announce on haskell.org. Previous releases:

• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2005-March/015615.html
• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2007-May/019498.html
• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2008-January/020166.html
• http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-July/045547.html