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For fully testing a release candidate, you should have the following installed on your system:

• JDK (tested with JDK 8+)
• Maven (tested with 3.6)
• NodeJS + NPM (tested with v12+/ v6+)
• Docker + Docker-Compose

Step 1: Download release artifacts

Download all staged artifacts under the url specified in the release vote email into a directory we’ll now call download-dir.

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Typically, this includes three zip files (core, extensions and installer) along with checksum, signature, README, RELEASE_VALIDATION and RELEASE_NOTES.

Step 2: Validate incubator-streampipes

First, open the core folder (core/{version}/{rc}).

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Once you're done with that, proceed to the next step. Before we test the whole system, we'll build and run the extensions.

Step 3: Validate incubator-streampipes-extensions

Open the extensions folder (extensions/{version}/{rc}.

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Search for SNAPSHOT dependencies

Build extensions

Build the extensions project as follows:

mvn clean package

Start test system

docker-compose up -d

# Use docker-compose up to run it in foreground
# Docker images will be locally built

See the instructions under "test" to test the release candidate.

incubator-streampipes-installer

Open the extensions folder (installer/{version}/{rc}.

Repeat the following steps for the extensions project, similar as explained above:

Verify signature

Verify checksum

Unzip

Verify legal information and required files

Test

Validation Template

See also the Incubator Release Checklist (which is not official policy, but may help)

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