Release checklist » History » Version 19

Version 18 (Chris Cannam, 2014-07-09 05:30 PM) → Version 19/22 (Chris Cannam, 2014-07-09 05:30 PM)

h1. Release checklist

For the process of building and releasing binaries of a C++ Vamp plugin.

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|*Code hygiene*||
|Run the "Vamp Plugin Tester":/projects/vamp-plugin-tester on the plugin, under @valgrind --leak-check=full@ (see "valgrind":http://valgrind.org/), and fix everything it reports||
|*Versioning and tagging*||
|Check that copyright dates are correct and up-to-date||
|If this is a new release of a previously-released plugin, increment the plugin's @getPluginVersion()@ value||
|Tag the repository (when you have confirmed that the plugin builds successfully on all target platforms)||
|Create the source package using @hg archive@ or equivalent to archive directly from your tagged version||
|*Categories and RDF*||
|Make sure you have a sensible category file (@.cat@)||
|Generate an RDF template using the @vamp-rdf-template-generator@ program found in @rdf/generator@ in the Vamp plugin SDK, and edit it to contain correct metadata||

||Win32|OS/X|Linux32|Linux64|
|*Platform build checks*||||| checks|||||
|Make sure _release build_ is built in _release mode_ ! i.e. with optimization turned on|||||
|Test on the oldest and newest releases you intend to support -- e.g. Windows XP and Windows 8; OS/X 10.6 and 10.10|||||
|Test on an installation of the platform that does not have any developer tools installed|||||
|*Make sure package contains...*|||||
|The plugin library!|||||
|@README@ describing the plugin and how to install and use it, identifying the authors, with a link to a site about it|||||
|@COPYING@ containing the licence for the plugin|||||
|@CITATION@ containing BibTeX of any paper to cite when using the plugin in academic work|||||

Top priority build targets:
* 32-bit Windows
* 64-bit OS/X Intel
* 64-bit Linux, _if_ you are not providing source

Second-tier build targets:
* 32-bit Linux
* 64-bit Linux
* 32-bit OS/X Intel (or universal binary)

Third-tier build targets:
* 64-bit Windows (may become higher-priority in future though)

h4. Publicity

* Send details of your plugin's download location and the RDF metadata file to cannam@all-day-breakfast.com for inclusion in "the download page":http://vamp-plugins.org/download.html