=Release Guidelines=

While preparing for the release:

• Create cleanup branch(if needed) with some little patches (usually with typecasts fixies, etc);
• Create ticket (type=task) for release. Ticket must be blocket by cleanup branch (if present);
• Update NEWS file into repo and Wiki;
• New tag in git;
• New version in Trac;
• New milestone in trac;
• Package tar.(gz|bzip|lzma) files and make checksums for archives;
• Upload source packages and checksums to special upload area;
• developers must download tarballs, verify checksums, compile and locally install. If all is ok, developers keeps votes in ticket;
• Upload source packages and checksums to ​http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads;
• Update Wiki start page with latest release number;
• Write an announcement: list user visible changes (bugs and features);
• Close current milestone;
• Close ticket for release.