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• tag all the files with a new RC tag, e.g. 2.3.2RC1v2_3_3_RC1
• extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
• create a directory (<libextra>) to contain 3rd party libraries not included in the distribution

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  copy following jars to <libextra>: \[none currently needed\]

• create distribution files:
  • ant distribution -lib=<libextra> -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
  • sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
    

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• upload to temporary location (e.g. personal dir)
  • cd public_html ; mkdir jmeter-m.n
  • cd jmeter-m.n
  • mkdir dist
  • copy archives, sigs and hashes to dist
  • Install the site docs: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/jmeter/tags/vm_nxx/docs
  • Extract Javadocs: unzip -x jmeter-m.n.o.zip '*/docs/api/*' and move to docs/api

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  send round \[VOTE\] e-mail to jmeter-dev and general AT jakarta

• Wait for any feedback; address any issues raised, if necessary by creating another release tag
• If at least 3 PMC votes, then continue

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  send round \[VOTE\] \[RESULT\] e-mail to same mailing lists

• Copy the RC tag to the release tag
  

Upload files

• Make sure that file group is set to jakarta (chgrp jakarta jakarta-jmeter*)
• copy archives to /www/www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jmeter/binaries and /www/www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jmeter/source
• Make sure that file group is set to jakarta
• delete any obsolete releases (keep the current one for now)as appropriate
• check files are visible and downloadable from www.apache.org (2+ hours)
  • http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jmeter/binaries/
  • http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jmeter/source/
    
• wait a day or so for mirrors to catch up
  

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• Ensure you have an up-to-date checkout of https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/site
• update ./xdocs/downloads/downloads.xml file to point to new files
• update ./news.xml to add details of new release
• rebuild jakarta site (ant docs)
• commit changes
• login to people.apache.org
• cd /www/jakarta.apache.org
• svn update
• cd /www/jakarta.apache.org/jmeter
• fetch site from SVN:
  • svn switch http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/jmeter/tags/vm_n_nno/docs
  • If the documentation needs to be updated between releases, create a branch docs-vm_nn n_o from the tag and switch to that
  • for later updates, use "svn switch" or "svn update" as appropriate (use svn info to find current setting)
  • The Javadocs are not in SVN so these need to be copied from the staging area
• N.B. wait for few hours so site updates catch up
  

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