...

RC_NUM=0
BRANCH_NAME=branch-3.6
WORK_BRANCH=release-3.6.0
RELEASE_DEVELOPMENT_VERSION=3.6.21-SNAPSHOT
RELEASE_VERSION=3.6.0
TAG=release-$RELEASE_VERSION-$RC_NUM

git checkout $BRANCH_NAME
git checkout -b $WORK_BRANCH
git pull
git push --dry-run
git status
# you are now in release-x.y.z branch

...

# Staged artifacts built by "release:perform" are in target/checkout

cd target/checkout/zookeeper-assembly/target

sftp home.apache.org
> cd public_html
> mkdir zookeeper-$VERSION-candidate-0
> cd zookeeper-$VERSION-candidate-0
> put *-bin.tar.gz
> put *-bin.tar.gz.asc
> put *-bin.tar.gz.sha512
> lcd ../../target

# pwd should be target/checkout/target
> put apache-zookkeper-$VERSION-source-release.tar.gz
> put apache-zookkeper-$VERSION-source-release.tar.gz.asc
> put apache-zookkeper-$VERSION-source-release.tar.gz.sha512
> bye

# uplading website (sftp needs directory tree to be pre-created?)
lcd ../zookeeper-docs/target/html
> mkdir website
> mkdir website/images
> mkdir website/skin
> uploadcd website...
> put -r * 

Call for VOTE

• Call for a release vote on dev (note dev@ and not user@, the user list is for discussion of released software only) at zookeeper.apache.org. Here is a sample email (from 3.4.6 release):
  

  Subject: [VOTE] Apache ZooKeeper release 3.6.0 candidate 0   This is a release candidate for 3.6.0. It is a major release and it introduces a lot of new features, most notably: - Built-in data consistency check inside ZooKeeper - Allow Followers to host Observers - A new feature proposal to ZooKeeper: authentication enforcement - Pluggable metrics system for ZooKeeper (and Prometheus.io integration) - TLS Port unification - Audit logging in ZooKeeper servers - Improve resilience to network (advertise multiple addresses for members of a Zookeeper cluster) - Persistent Recursive Watch - add an API and the corresponding CLI to get total count of recursive sub nodes under a specific path   The full release notes is available at:   https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12346617   *** Please download, test and vote by January 19th 2020, 23:59 UTC+0. ***   Source files: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-0/   Maven staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1045/   The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.6.0-0 https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.6.0-0   ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS Please note that this new major release introduces these change in the staging area: - the source artifacts package is in zip format - we are releasing a new binary package with the C client (with OpenSSL support) - website preview We are also adding a new JAR: zookeeper-metrics-providers The staging version of the website is: https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.0-candidate-0/website/ Should we release this candidate? Release Manager Signature

  
  

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