trisquel-icecat/icecat/third_party/rust/flate2/MAINTENANCE.md

This document explains how to perform the project's maintenance tasks.

Creating a new release

Artifacts

• a tag of the version number
• a new crate version

Process

To generate all the artifacts above, one proceeds as follows:

1. git checkout -b release-<next-version> - move to a branch to prepare making changes to the repository. Changes cannot be made to main as it is protected.
2. Edit Cargo.toml to the next package version.
3. gh pr create to create a new PR for the current branch and get it merged.
4. cargo publish to create a new release on crates.io.
5. git tag <next-version> to remember the commit.
6. git push --tags to push the new tag.
7. Go to the newly created release page on GitHub and edit it by pressing the "Generate Release Notes" and the @ button. Save the release.