This is a checklist of making a Dimbola release.

1. Branch trunk into a temporary branch for making release preparations:

   bzr branch trunk release-prep
   

2. Make sure make clean check passes.
3. Update NEWS.
4. Update debian/changelog.
5. Run through the testing manuscript. If there are any serious bugs, abort release process.
6. Increase version number in dimbola/__init__.py.

7. Build .deb package, install it, and test it.

   rm -rf ../build-area && bzr bd
   sudo dpkg -i ../build-area/*.deb
   

8. Make sure Help/News is up to date when running the newly installed package.
9. Upload .deb package to main upload target.
10. Merge temporary branch to trunk.

11. Tag:

    bzr tag version_x_y_z
    

12. Push changes to trunk to master location.
13. For each other Debian-like upload target, make a new temporary branch, update debian/changelog with a very short entry marked for the upload target, build package, and upload. (You may have to fix building on anything than Ubuntu first, though.)
14. Make a new screenshot and put it on the front page.