This document is aimed at members of the Pony team who might be cutting a release of Pony. It serves as a checklist that can take you through doing a release step-by-step.
You must have commit access to the pony-valbytes repository
Please note that this document was written with the assumption that you are using a clone of the pony-valbytes 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 pony-valbytes repo from which you will release.
git clone git@github.com:mfelsche/pony-valbytes.git pony-valbytes-release-clean
cd pony-valbytes-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