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Taming JSON to Prepare Beta or Release Candidates

https://github.com/apache/netbeans-jenkins-lib/blob/master/meta/netbeansrelease.json

For each release section you will have milestones section. This section will help branding a special Apache NetBeans milestone.

If nothing is set in the section, it will release a dev version of current branch, e.g., 11.3-dev.

Preparing for beta:

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"<commit hash>":{"version": "beta1","position": "1"}

Branding will contains contain beta information.

Preparing for voting candidate:

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"<commit hash>":{"vote": "1","position": "2"}

Branding will contains contain release information.

Producing a Beta

1. Obtaining and Preparing the Beta files

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