[ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Release Manager position open

[Andrew]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Cory K. <coryisatm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I envision the release manager doing:
>
>    * Release notes/announcements.
>    * Preparing the packages. .tar or .deb. (whatever needed)
>    * Uploading to various sites and being the teams point-of-contact there.
>
> Anyone new up for that?
>
>

I've got a few questions about release preparations, branch layouts, and such...

First of all, what format should the release tarball be in? There are
few options:

1) Simple drop into theme manager style tarball with only:

16x16  22x22  24x24  32x32  48x48  index.theme  scalable

2) A real release tarball along with a deb.

3) ???

Which branch would the release be from? The autotools magic is only in
the debian packaging branch.

Some other issues:

The COPYING file in the debian packaging branch and the LICENSE file
in the breath-icon-set branch are different.

README in both branches is an empty file.

I was able to create a standard GNU style release tarball from the
debian packaging branch with the following steps:

Edit version number in configure.ac and configure.ac-template
rm -r debian
bzr log -v --gnu-changelog > ChangeLog
autoreconf
automake --add-missing
autoreconf
./autogen.sh
make
make check
make distcheck

I'd also do a review of the debian packaging if it would be helpful.

Anyways, I might be interested in taking on the release manager role.
But in many ways it seems like a task for you, Cory, since you are the
one setting goals and driving development. Though, not being an
artist, it would be a way that I could contribute to the project.

- Andrew