release.md

Release %vX.Y.Z UPDATE THIS

This is a checklist based on the release document; consult it for more details.

Preflight checks

• All the issues from this milestone are resolved
• Ensure that tests pass (either on stable or on master branch)
• Documentation looks correct https://test.kwant-project.org/doc/
• Whatnew is up to date
• AUTHORS.rst and .mailmap are up to date (run git shortlog -s | sed -e "s/^ *[0-9\t ]*//"| xargs -i sh -c 'grep -q "{}" AUTHORS.rst || echo "{}"')

Make a release, but do not publish it yet

• Tag the release
• Build the source tarball and inspect it
• Build the documentation

Test packaging

These steps may be done in parallel

Debian

• Follow the steps for building the Debian packages from RELEASE.rst