capistrano/RELEASING.md

Releasing

Prerequisites

• You must have commit rights to the Capistrano repository.
• You must have push rights for the capistrano gem on rubygems.org.

How to release

1. Run bundle install to make sure that you have all the gems necessary for testing and releasing.
2. Ensure all tests are passing by running rake spec and rake features.
3. Determine which would be the correct next version number according to semver.
4. Update the version in ./lib/capistrano/version.rb.
5. Update the version in the ./README.md Gemfile example (gem "capistrano", "~> X.Y").
6. Commit the version.rb and README.md changes in a single commit, the message should be "Release vX.Y.Z"
7. Run rake release; this will tag, push to GitHub, and publish to rubygems.org.
8. Update the draft release on the GitHub releases page to point to the new tag and publish the release