A release checklist so I won't forget stuff next time?

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9d65e6f7..dfec0708 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -7,23 +7,24 @@ Version 3.0b2, 30 April 2009
 

 HTML reporting, and continued refactoring.

 

-- HTML reports and annotation of source files: use the new -b switch.  Thanks

-  to George Song for code, inspiration and guidance.

+- HTML reports and annotation of source files: use the new -b (browser) switch.

+  Thanks to George Song for code, inspiration and guidance.

 

 - Code in the Python standard library is not measured by default.  If you need

   to measure standard library code, use the -L switch during execution.

 

-- Annotation into a directory (-a -d) behaves differently.  The annotated files

-  are named with their hierarchy flattened so that same-named files from

-  different directories no longer collide.  Also, only files in the current

-  tree are included.

+- Source annotation into a directory (-a -d) behaves differently.  The

+  annotated files are named with their hierarchy flattened so that same-named

+  files from different directories no longer collide.  Also, only files in the

+  current tree are included.

 

 - coverage.annotate_file is no longer available.

 

 - Programs executed with -x now behave more as they should, for example,

   __file__ has the correct value.

 

-- .coverage data files have a new pickle-based format.

+- .coverage data files have a new pickle-based format designed for better

+  extensibility.

 

 - Removed the undocumented cache_file argument to coverage.usecache().

 

@@ -37,7 +38,8 @@ Major overhaul.
   into classes.

 

 - The trace function is implemented in C for speed.  Coverage runs are now

-  much faster.

+  much faster.  Thanks to David Christian for productive micro-sprints and

+  other encouragement.

 

 - Executable lines are identified by reading the line number tables in the

   compiled code, removing a great deal of complicated analysis code.

diff --git a/TODO.txt b/TODO.txt
index 0e91a6ea..829701ba 100644
--- a/TODO.txt
+++ b/TODO.txt
@@ -149,3 +149,19 @@ x Tricky swapping of collector like figleaf, pycov, et al. (Don't need to do
 - More intensive thread testing.

 - Tests about the "import __main__" in cmdline.py

 - What happens if the -x script raises an exception?

+

+

+* Release checklist

+

+- Test on:

+    - Windows

+    - Ubuntu

+    - Mac

+    - Pythons 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6

+- Version number in coverage/__init__.py:__version__

+- Update CHANGES, including release date.

+- Kits:

+    - source .tgz

+    - windows .exe for each Python

+    - mac dmg?

+- Upload kits to bitbucket.