release.txt

Release Instructions
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- Tests with the following compilers
  - GCC 4.5 - 4.8
  - Intel 12.1, 13.1, and 14.0
  - Clang 3.4 and 3.5
  - VS 2010, 2012 and 2013
- Turn of all internal and user assertions
- Adapt the version information in <blaze/system/Version.h>
- Create a tag with message 'Blaze version x.y'
  - use 'git tag' to display all tags
  - use 'git show vXXX' to show a specific tag
  - use 'git tag -a vXXX -m 'Blaze version XXX' to create the tag
- Create the Blaze download 'blaze-x.y.tar.gz':
  - Clone the created tag
  - Remove the directory '.git'
  - Remove all '.gitignore' files:
      find * -type f -iname ".gitignore" -exec rm -f {} \;
- Create the Blaze documentation 'blaze-docu-x.y.tar.gz'
- Test the two archives
- Upload of the two archives
- Adapting the project home page
  - Update the download images
  - Update the linked version of Blaze
  - Update the news section
  - Update the tested compilers
- Announce the release in the following newsletters:
  - NA-Digest
  - Gauss-Allianz (redaktion@gauss-allianz.de)
  - SIGHPC Connect newsletter (newsletter@sighpc.org)