Alpha Release

- branch core packages
    cvs tag -b oacs-5-8 

- bump version numbers in oacs-5-8 branch to e.g. 5.8.0a1

- bump version numbers in HEAD to 5.9.0d1

- update build-repository "head_channel" apm_build_repository 
  (packages/acs-admin/tcl/apm-admin-procs/tcl/) to 5-9

- tag core-packages in oacs-5-8 branch
    cvs tag -F openacs-5-8
    cvs -q  tag -F openacs-5-8-compat 

- optionally branch and tag application packages (non-core)
     xowiki xotcl-core xotcl-request-monitor categories acs-events 
     acs-datetime file-storage rss-support general-comments 
     oacs-dav acs-developer-support ajaxhelper forums attachments

 - testing (automated testing, install xowiki + forums from repository, 
   create xowiki page, forum entry)

 - ask for oracle testing (UNED, quest)

 - produce tar
   * checkout cvs -d:ext:gustafn@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-8 acs-core
   * sudo chown -R nsadmin openacs-4; sudo chmod -R g+w openacs-4
   * mv openacs-4 openacs-5.8.0a0
   * tar zcvf openacs-5.8.0a0.tar.gz --exclude CVS openacs-5.8.0a0


Beta Release

 - all in oacs-5-8 branch:

 - bump version numbers to e.g. 5.8.0b1

 - regenerate xml documentation

 - produce raw change summary of core packages

     cvs -q log -d "2011/08/02<2014/01/01" > /tmp/changes-core
     ~/scripts/log2changelog <  /tmp/changes-core > ~/changes-5.8 

 - produce change summary
   5.8.0 Brian.Fenton@quest.ie helped

 - update version number in readme.txt

 - retag
   cvs -q  tag -F openacs-5-8-compat 

 - produce tar
   * checkout cvs -d:ext:gustafn@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-8 acs-core
   * sudo chown -R nsadmin openacs-4; sudo chmod -R g+w openacs-4
   * mv openacs-4 openacs-5.8.0b0
   * tar zcvf openacs-5.8.0b0.tar.gz --exclude CVS openacs-5.8.0b0


Final Release
   
 - bump version numbers to e.g. 5.8.0

 - testing (automated testing, install xowiki + forums from repository, 
   create xowiki page, forum entry)

 - rerun: cvs tag -F openacs-5-8-compat

 - update raw ChangeLog

 - update Summary

 - tag with final:
   cvs -q  tag -F openacs-5-8-0-final

 - produce tar
   * checkout cvs -d:ext:gustafn@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-8 acs-core
   * sudo chown -R nsadmin openacs-4; sudo chmod -R g+w openacs-4
   * mv openacs-4 openacs-5.8.0
   * tar zcvf openacs-5.8.0.tar.gz --exclude CVS openacs-5.8.0

 - update web site (tar, announce, links on start page)

 - merge changes of release branch to HEAD