Before submitting a new release, make sure all relevant pull requests and local branches have been merged to the master
branch. All tests must pass before a release is tagged.
Update the AUTHORS and .mailmap file
git checkout master
git log --use-mailmap | grep ^Author: | cut -f2- -d' ' | sort | uniq > AUTHORS
git commit -am "Update AUTHORS"
Install github-changelog-generator
gem install github_changelog_generator
Generate CHANGELOG.md
github_changelog_generator -t <github-access-token> --future-release=v1.0.0
Version numbers are incremented regarding the SemVer 1.0.0 specification.
Update the version number in metadata.json
.
Commit all changes to the master
branch
git commit -v -a -m "Release version <VERSION>"
git push
Tag the release
git tag -m "Version <VERSION>" v<VERSION>
Push tags
git push --tags
The module is uploaded automatically to Puppet Forge by TravisCI when a new tag is set.