Development and Release Process

Release a new version of D

The master branch in git contains a version in stabilization. This version will be the next release of D. When it is judged stabilized enough to be released, a branch is created for this new release. The name of the branch is D2.N+1, where N is the previous version of D2 .

git checkout master git branch 2.N+1 git checkout 2.N+1

Then, a tag is created.

git tag 2.N+1.0

Packaging is done as usual based on the content of the tag.

Release a revision of a released version of D

A revision can be published on an already released version of D. Revision include bug fixes, but no new feature. We supposed bug fixes has been included into branch 2.N where N is the released version of D we want to update. M is the last revision number that have been published.

git checkout 2.N git tag 2.N.M+1

Packaging is done as usual based on the content of the tag.