cran-checklist.md

In fstpackage/fst: Lightning Fast Serialization of Data Frames

Checks before releasing to CRAN

• Build and test package on:
  • Clang 6.0.0 (on latest Ubuntu)
  • R-hub infrastructure (all available platforms)
  • docker with the rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang instrumented image
  • docker with the rocker/r-devel-san instrumented image
  • Travis Linux and OSX
  • AppVeyor (Windows Server)
  • latest R dev version on Windows
• Test packages with dependencies on fst using revdepcheck::revdep_check()
• Merge develop branch into release branch
• Bump version to even value in DESCRIPTION and check package startup message
• Update README.Rmd and verify generated README.md on Github (release)
• Update cran_comments.md
• Build docs folder using pkgdown::build_site()
• Update NEWS.md and make sure to remove '(in development)' in the version title and update version number
• Credit all GitHub contributions in NEWS.md
• Submit to CRAN

After releasing to CRAN

• Update NEWS.md with the release date
• Build docs folder using pkgdown::build_site(). Check that the package date is correct.
• Merge branch release into master
• Tag the release on Github
• Commit latest docs to the fstpackage.github.io and fstpackage.github.io/fst repository
• Go to the repository release page and create a new release with tag version vx.y.z. Copy and paste the contents of the relevant NEWS.md section into the release notes.
• Merge branch master into release
• Add '(in development)' to version title in NEWS.md and update to odd version number
• Check package startup message
• Merge release branch into develop

fstpackage/fst documentation built on Sept. 30, 2024, 12:15 p.m.