Author: bugman Date: Mon Sep 8 08:59:39 2014 New Revision: 25679 URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax?rev=25679&view=rev Log: Updated the release checklist document, including adding a section about cross-linking. The cross-linking is important for search engine indexing. Modified: trunk/docs/Release_Checklist Modified: trunk/docs/Release_Checklist URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/trunk/docs/Release_Checklist?rev=25679&r1=25678&r2=25679&view=diff ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/Release_Checklist (original) +++ trunk/docs/Release_Checklist Mon Sep 8 08:59:39 2014 @@ -213,5 +213,26 @@ - Log into Gna! and go to https://gna.org/news/submit.php?group=relax. - Cut and paste all of the wiki text. Delete the initial lower case title formatting text, the final 'See also' section, and any wiki markup. - Use the Savane markup to format the text (recipe #236, https://gna.org/cookbook/?func=detailitem&item_id=236). - - As the Savane markup for sectioning is the same as the wiki, the section titles = Description =, = Download =, and = Full list of changes = do not need to be modified. The same for the subtitles == Features ==, == Changes ==, and == Bugfixes ==. The leading whitespace from the full list of changes must be stripped, but this should already be done in the wiki text. + - As the Savane markup for sectioning is the same as the wiki, the section titles = Description =, = Download =, and = Full list of changes = do not need to be modified (except changing the text 'CHANGES file' to 'Full list of changes'). The same for the subtitles == Features ==, == Changes ==, and == Bugfixes ==. The leading whitespace from the full list of changes must be stripped, but this should already be done in the wiki text. - Item references such as bug #7641, task #3122, etc. are automatically converted into links, therefore remove all links to the trackers. + - The Gna! news items are often truncated, so start a new thread for the rest of the message, responding to that thread for each block of release notes via the [ Reply ] link at the bottom of the page. + + +Cross-linking +------------- + +For better indexing by search engines, cross-link all the release announcements. It may take a few days for all the links to be created. For example for relax 3.1.7: + + Official release notes: http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Relax_3.1.7 + Gna! news item: https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2448 + Gmane: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.announce/53 + Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/relax-announce%40gna.org/msg00047.html + Local archives: https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html + MARC: http://marc.info/?l=relax-announce&m=139509874209089&w=2 + + Softpedia also has information about the newest relax releases: + Softpedia for GNU/Linux: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Science/relax-22351.shtml and http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/relax-Download-22351.html + Softpedia for MS Windows: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/relax-project.shtml and http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/relax-Download-210902.html + Softpedia for Mac OS X: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/Edward-relax.shtml and http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/relax-Download-124418.html + +Not all of these links may work, and