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1The release criteria for libdrm is essentially "if you need a release,
2make one".  There is no designated release engineer or maintainer.
3Anybody is free to make a release if there's a certain feature or bug
4fix they need in a released version of libdrm.
5
6When new ioctl definitions are merged into drm-next, we will add
7support to libdrm, at which point we typically create a new release.
8However, this is up to whoever is driving the feature in question.
9
10Follow these steps to release a new version of libdrm:
11
12  1) Bump the version number in meson.build. We seem to have settled for
13     2.4.x as the versioning scheme for libdrm, so just bump the micro
14     version.
15
16  2) Run `ninja -C builddir/ dist` to generate the tarballs.
17     Make sure that the version number of the tarball name in
18     builddir/meson-dist/ matches the number you bumped to. Move that
19     tarball to the libdrm repo root for the release script to pick up.
20
21  3) Push the updated master branch with the bumped version number:
22
23	git push origin master
24
25     assuming the remote for the upstream libdrm repo is called origin.
26
27  4) Use the release.sh script from the xorg/util/modular repo to
28     upload the tarballs to the freedesktop.org download area and
29     create an announce email template.  The script takes one argument:
30     the path to the libdrm checkout. So, if a checkout of modular is
31     at the same level than the libdrm repo:
32
33	./modular/release.sh libdrm
34
35     This copies the two tarballs to freedesktop.org and creates
36     libdrm-2.4.16.announce which has a detailed summary of the
37     changes, links to the tarballs, MD5 and SHA1 sums and pre-filled
38     out email headers.  Fill out the blank between the email headers
39     and the list of changes with a brief message of what changed or
40     what prompted this release.  Send out the email and you're done!
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