[webkit-gtk] Trying to make webkit releases less painful

[Martin Robinson]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos
<cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> All you who have made a webkit release know how painful it is. Most of
> the time is spent fixing distcheck errors, so taking advantage of the
> gardening organization, we can try to run make distcheck regularly by
> gardeners and fix the errors as part of the gardening tasks. I think
> running it once per week would be more than enough, since we have one
> gardener assigned for every day of the week, we can select a gardening
> every week to run make distcheck.
>
> Opinions?
>
> But the release process is not only running make distcheck, and we
> don't have it documented, so I'll document it in our wiki the next week.

'make dist' and 'make distcheck' cause us so much pain. Not only do we
have the ever-present problem of missing headers, we can only run it
with a specially patched version of make. I wish there was an easy
replacement for autotools make dist.