	Notes on Preparing a GDAL Source Release
	========================================

1) Place Release notice in ChangeLog file. 

2) Update the release date, and number information at the top of core/gdal.h.
   Three macros: GDAL_VERSION_NUM, GDAL_RELEASE_DATE and GDAL_RELEASE_NAME.

3) Prepare release overview in the NEWS file.  The cvs2cl.pl script can be 
   useful for collecting a full listing of all CVS log entries.  It can be
   useful to perform this and some of the other cvs intensive steps on 
   remotesensing.org if possible, to minimize CVS latency. 

   eg. 

   % cvs2cl.pl > AutoChangeLog

4) Update the GDAL html/gdal_index.html to refer to the newly to be created
   source files, and commit. 

5) Update the web site.  

   % make docs
   % cd html
   % cvs commit -m update

6) Tag the release set in CVS. 

   eg. 
   % cvs tag gdal_1_1_6 

7) Create the source distributions using the mkgdaldist.sh script.  The
   argument should be the version number (ie. 1.1.6).  Hit enter when 
   prompted for a CVS password.

   eg.
   % mkgdaldist.sh 1.1.6

8) Publish the resulting files.  

   eg.
   % scp gdal-1.1.5.tar.gz gdal115.zip remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/gdal
   

9) Announce release to the gdal-dev@yahoogroups.com and 
   sfcom-dev@yahoogroups.com mailing lists.

10) Update the freshmeat.net entry for GDAL. 





 