Development

We are using Subversion for version control. The main development is in the trunk ​http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk. There is a separate directory for plug-ins and spin-off projects: ​http://svn.perlide.org/padre/projects

• see Download for installation information

see the ​http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk/Padre/HACKING.txt file

Translation

See TranslationIntro

Release and Distribution

Release of Padre

As of release 0.21 we started a rotation of release managers for Padre.

• Obtain co-maintenance permissions for all of the namespaces in the Padre distribution. Talk to Gábor Szabó (szabgab), Adam Kennedy (Alias), or Steffen Müller (tsee) about this.
• cd to trunk/Padre
• Make sure the Changes file is up to date and manually update if necessary, add the vX.XX Date string at the top (commit)
• run perl ../tools/update_version_number.pl VERSION that will update the version number in every module and report if there was no VERSION entry in a module. Those need to be fixed. (commit)
• run perl ../tools/release.pl REV VERSION [--tag] will try to create a distribution using a temporary directory and copy the resulting Padre-X.XX.tar.gz in the current directory. The optional --tag flag will also create a tag in SVN. So the release manager first can run it dry and when she is sure it creates a good release can run it again to also tag it in SVN.
• Upload to PAUSE
• Send announcement to ​padre-dev mailing list
• Send announcement to ​padre-news mailing list (Gabor needs to approve the message)
• Submit announcement to ​http://use.perl.org/
• Update the Release History
• Add the version number to the list of versions in Trac (Gabor needs to do this)
• Important: Assign primary maintainer status to Gabor (PAUSE ID 'SZABGAB') for all namespaces that are new in the current release.
  • Log into your PAUSE account
  • Click "View Permissions" in the menu
  • Note all Padre::* classes for which you are listed as "first-come" (as opposed to "co-maint").
  • Click "Change Permissions" in the menu
  • Under "2. You are primary maintainer:" select any one or all of the Padre::* namespaces that appear in the list view.
  • Click Select for "2.1 Pass primary maintainership status to somebody else (giving it up at the same time)"
  • Make sure all Padre::* namespaces are selected in the new listbox.
  • Enter "SZABGAB" in the text field.
  • Click "Pass Maintainership Status".
  • You will automatically become co-maintainer instead of primary maintainer of the classes in question.