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How To Roll a Release

Releases are tagged from minor version branches (e.g., /branches/confman-1.9).
Alpha and Beta tags are suffixed with "a" and "b", respectively.
Odd minor versions (starting with 1.9) are for development releases in preparation of an even minor number.

Check out the branch:

$ svn co https://svn.timesinks.net/branches/confman-1.9

Set the version number in configure.ac:

AC_INIT([confman], [1.9.0b], [confman-users@timesinks.net])

Let autotools do its thing
```
autoreconf -i
```
Run ./configure to build a Makefile (the arguments don't matter)
```
./configure
```
Build a tarball
```
make dist
```

Test the tarball

tar xzf confman-1.9.0b.tar.gz
cd confman-1.9.0b
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man
make
sudo make install

Tag the release

cd ..
svn copy . https://svn.timesinks.net/confman/tags/confman-1.9.0b

Generate the md5sum and sha1sums

md5 confman-1.9.0b.tar.gz
sha1 confman-1.9.0b.tar.gz