cheat sheet for making a (stable) release tarball.

0. check if your name settings in .hgrc are correct. (have
   your real name and email address in there).

1. clone a fresh tree:

   $ hg clone http://gredler.at/hg/olsrd-0.5.7
   $ hg update -C OLSRD_0_5_7_BRANCH

2. check if the DEBUG settings in Makefile.inc are correct:

   DEBUG ?= 0
   NO_DEBUG_MESSAGES ?= 1

   now check if it builds correct:

   $ make build_all

3. Change VERS in Makefile.inc to your target release.
   in this example the target release is 0.5.6-r5

   most likely this is carrying some pre-XXX-release tag.
   
   $ grep -E "^VERS" Makefile
   VERS =          pre-0.5.6-r5

   change it to

   VERS =          0.5.6-r5

4. commit & push

5. display the used tags: 
   
   $ hg tags
   tip                             1757:77e1ccb98227
   OLSRD_0_5_6_R3                  1728:feb3d7883ff0
   OLSRD_0_5_6_R2                  1688:1573e530a679
   OLSRD_0_5_6                     1669:d91b47b34ba7
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC7                 1644:1516480b552f
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC6                 1634:f1b2cdeafd74
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC5                 1622:99b89bb6a9a4
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC4                 1612:0490bdcb7910
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC3                 1591:c6c9571fe4d6
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC2                 1587:bd66c98dc4c8
   OLSRD_0_5_6_RC1                 1526:fd8f4e49a398
   OLSRD_0_5_5                     1460:233036647bca
   OLSRD_0_5_5_RC1                 1452:669b81f6918e
   OLSRD_0_5_4                     1264:60f04fc39707
   OLSRD_0_5_3                     1158:00991ca84047
   OLSRD_0_5_2                     1121:283effb1472c
   OLSRD_0_5_1                     1101:c23aab9db1e1
   OLSRD_0_5_0                      994:612f5a21a303
   OLSRD_0_4_10                     893:a39cda38836b
   OLSRD_0_4_9                      704:43d67c4814ef
   OLSRD_0_4_8                      404:e9beaf82c0ea

   now tag the tree (please stick to the tagging scheme).

   $ hg tag OLSRD_0_5_6_R5

6. make the release tarball

   $ cd scripts/
   $ ./mk-tarball.sh
   [ ... ]
   ### creating /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.gz
   6c996e94de06115d19dbbcaf6847051a  /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.gz
   ### creating /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.bz2
   e476819be5747758e3d6f579e4096bce  /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.bz2

7. check if everything is in the release tarball (ideally on a a
   differnt machine) and try to build from the tarball.

8. upload the the .tgz and .bz2 tarballs to the http://www.olsr.org/downaload/0.5/
   sectaion and add a release articel on the web.

9. Change VERS in Makefile.inc to your *next* target release.
   in this example the next target release is pre-0.5.6-r6

   change it from:
   
   $ grep -E "^VERS" Makefile
   VERS =          0.5.6-r5

   to

   VERS =          pre-0.5.6-r6

   commit & push

you are done, congratulations !