Maintainers

This page contains all the useful informations for MATE maintainers.

This section covers all the process to release a MATE package tarball in http://pub.mate-desktop.org/.

• Make sure you're up to date:
  

  git pull

• Make sure you don't have local changes and/or revisions:
  

  git status

• Increment the version number in configure.in or configure.ac:
  

  AC_INIT([mate-panel], [1.2.1], [https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues], [mate-panel], [http://www.mate-desktop.org])

• Update ChangeLog file:
  

  git log --stat > ChangeLog

• Check the README file.
• Try to build, install and use the package.
• Commit and tag the changes:
  

  git commit -a
  git tag -a mate-package-name-X.Y.Z
  git push origin master --tags

• Upload the tarball to AutoMate ftp.

This section covers all the process to maintain MATE packages in the official repository at http://repo.mate-desktop.org/.