From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83iq9nn6v5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266949772 30098 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2010 18:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 19:29:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjzVf-0002lz-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjzVf-0005Yq-9a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NjzVZ-0005Xb-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36402 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjzVY-0005X8-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjzVX-0000Nx-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjzVX-0000Nq-AO; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYB003004NCBH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:29:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.246.192]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYB000X74OTD2B0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:29:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121301 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:31:25 +0800 > From: Jason Rumney > CC: Christoph , eliz@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 6. Make sure 7z.exe is in your PATH, or modify admin/nt/makedist.bat to > use your preferred zip utility (I found that InfoZip zip.exe does not > work well, which is why I changed to use 7z.exe) What didn't work well with zip.exe? > 8. Test the resulting zip files. What tests did you usually run? > Then the process of signing and uploading begins. This is documented in > the GNU maintainers manual, and is probably the more difficult part of > the process, particularly if your internet connection is not fast and > stable and uploads get interrupted. It also requires to register a GPG signature, doesn't it?