From 0b3e91937762ce341ea3742ebd9a0ad876861ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:30:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated Creating a release (markdown)

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 Creating-a-release.md | 42 +++++++-----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Creating-a-release.md b/Creating-a-release.md
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-- Run the full testsuite (``tests\testament\tester all``) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)
+- ensure travis and appveyor is green (Usually the case these days) for the release branch 0-19, 0-20, etc
 
-- Update news.txt
-- write a news ticker entry
 - Update the version
   - In system.nim
-
-- Recompile koch!
-- Generate the full docs;  koch web0
-
-- Test the installers: koch testinstall
 - Tag the release, e.g. ```git tag -am "Version 0.15.0" v0.15.0```
 - Push the tag: ```git push origin [tagname]```
 
-- Run ``tools/winrelease`` 
-  For this you need to close VSCode so that 'nimsuggest' can be overwritten!
-- Upload the produced .zips.
+- Nightlies now build the binaries for us: https://github.com/nim-lang/nightlies/releases 
+- Ensure nightly builds exist
+- Recompile koch!
+- Generate the full docs;  koch web0
 
-- Merge devel into master
+- Merge 0-19 branch into master
 - Update csources via ``koch pushcsources``
 
-**The following shell script shall be replaced by 'koch unixrelease'**
-Shell script to build a source tarball:
-
-```sh
-#!/bin/sh
-set -eu
-tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
-cd $tmp_dir
-git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git
-cd Nim
-git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources
-( cd csources && sh build.sh )
-bin/nim c koch
-./koch boot -d:release
-./koch web0
-PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/bin
-./koch csource -d:release
-./koch xz -d:release
-```
-
 ## Website
 
-### Uploading the binaries
-
-- `scp nim-0.18.0.tar.xz username@servername:/var/www/nim-lang.org/download/nim-0.18.0.tar.xz` (change the version obviously)
+- Upload the produced .zips. For example:  `scp nim-0.18.0.tar.xz username@servername:/var/www/nim-lang.org/download/nim-0.18.0.tar.xz` (change the version obviously)
 
 ### Generating the sha256's