Introduction

This document describes the process to be followed when preparing a new documentation release for QGIS. With version 0.9.0 the installation guide was merged into the user guide, so there is only one document left. Important is to finish updates before the software is tagged to be able to include current documentation in qgis/doc.

Check and update the english latex (master document)

Update the chapter install.tex converting INSTALL.t2t from qgis sources
Review, if the content is uptodate and the layout of the user_guide looks great.
Check and adapt qgis_style.sty for user_guide if necessary (version number, authors, ...)
Test, if the latex sources in trunk compile properly for user_guide.
Test creating PDF, PS, and HTML output for user_guide.

Tag the trunk (master document

When you think, everything works well and the documentation is ready to release, copy the directories user_guide from trunk/english_us to tags/<version>_user_guide. Example for version 0.9.0:

svn cp trunk/english_us/user_guide tags/0.9.0_user_guide

Prepair translation branches

After the release is tagged, create a new 0.9.0 branch for translation.

svn make branches/0.9.0/

Final tasks

create PDF, PS, and HTML output for user_guide and update on webpages
update pdf documentation in qgis sources (qgis/doc)