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@@ -5,18 +5,19 @@ Helix releases are versioned in the Calendar Versioning scheme:
`22.05.1`. In these instructions we'll use `<tag>` as a placeholder for the tag
being published.
-* Merge the PR with the release updates. That branch should:
- * Update the version:
- * Update the `workspace.package.version` key in `Cargo.toml`. Cargo only accepts
- SemVer versions so a CalVer version of `22.07` for example must be formatted
- as `22.7.0`. Patch/bugfix releases should increment the SemVer patch number. A
- patch release for 22.07 would be `22.7.1`.
- * Run `cargo check` and commit the resulting change to `Cargo.lock`
- * Add changelog notes to `CHANGELOG.md`
- * Add new `<release>` entry in `contrib/Helix.appdata.xml` with release information according to the [AppStream spec](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Releases.html)
+* Merge the changelog PR
+* Add new `<release>` entry in `contrib/Helix.appdata.xml` with release information according to the [AppStream spec](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Releases.html)
* Tag and push
- * Switch to master and pull
- * `git tag -s -m "<tag>" -a <tag> && git push origin <tag>` (note the `-s` which signs the tag)
+ * `git tag -s -m "<tag>" -a <tag> && git push`
+ * Make sure to switch to master and pull first
+* Edit the `Cargo.toml` file and change the date in the `version` field to the next planned release
+ * Due to Cargo having a strict requirement on SemVer with 3 or more version
+ numbers, a `0` is required in the micro version; however, unless we are
+ publishing a patch release after a major release, the `.0` is dropped in
+ the user facing version.
+ * Releases are planned to happen every two months, so `22.05.0` would change to `22.07.0`
+ * If we are pushing a patch/bugfix release in the same month as the previous
+ release, bump the micro version, e.g. `22.07.0` to `22.07.1`
* Wait for the Release CI to finish
* It will automatically turn the git tag into a GitHub release when it uploads artifacts
* Edit the new release