From 43148d1115a12219a0560a538c9872d07c28c558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elie Tournier Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 09:58:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a note about the release process Signed-off-by: Elie Tournier Reviewed-by: Gert Wollny --- docs/release.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/release.txt diff --git a/docs/release.txt b/docs/release.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfcd196 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +/* + * This document explain how releases are made and how you can create one locally + */ + + +Since version 0.8.0 releases are now done by means of tags, i.e. the maintainer adds a tag, +and Gitlab provide the release tarball/zipfile based on this. +For more details about GitLab release, see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/releases/ + +If you needs to make your own archived, you can use git-archive (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive) +or meson release (https://mesonbuild.com/Creating-releases.html)