This document is aimed at members of the Pony team who might be cutting a release of this library. It serves as a checklist that can take you through doing a release step-by-step.
You must have commit access to this repository
Please note that this document was written with the assumption that you are using a clone of the github_release_api repo. You have to be using a clone rather than a fork. It is advised to your do this by making a fresh clone of the github_release_api repo from which you will release.
git clone git@github.com:ponylang/github_release_api.git github_release_api-release-clean
cd github_release_api-release-cleanBefore getting started, you will need a number for the version that you will be releasing as well as an agreed upon "golden commit" that will form the basis of the release.
The "golden commit" must be HEAD on the main branch of this repository. At this time, releasing from any other location is not supported.
For the duration of this document, that we are releasing version is 0.3.1. Any place you see those values, please substitute your own version.
git tag release-0.3.1
git push origin release-0.3.1