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Important note: this document is not intended to be an official documentation about how to release. For official document, go to http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html^{Image Added}. The release manager have to be aware of that official documentation. This document is just here to help about not forgotting steps, give hints in the step's order, where to find and how to use release tools, espacially how to deploy the update site, etc...

Prepare

• In IVYDE@jira, make sure that no more issues are opened

Building

• make sure you have the right version number in

Here are the steps to release IvyDE:

• update the version in
  • the build.properties
  update
  • the site.xml
  • the CHANGES.txt
  • run ant /release dist
  • sign the artifacts with the proper version
  • ....

  ...

  • signArtifacts.sh

  Vote for the released artifacts

  • it is recommended to publish it in your public_html on people.apache.org directory so not only committers can test it
  • we can verify the signatures with verifyArtifacts.sh
  • we can verify the md5 and sha checksums with ant verify-checksum
  • the updatesite can be tested as is: configure it as a local repository

  Svn

  • tag the version

  Deployment

  Update the main updatesite

  • copy the site.xml and the digest.zip in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/site/ivyde/updatesite/^{Image Added}.
  • regenerate the web site:
    • cd svn/ant/ivy/site
    • ant generate-site-ivyde
    • svn ci target/ivyde
  • update the web site: on people.apache.org, in /www/ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde
    • svn up
    • chmod -R g+w *

  Publish the artifacts

  • copy the artifacts to apache dist directory (on people.apache.org):
    • create a directory /www/www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/$VERSION
    • copy the zip files to /www/www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/$VERSION (with their *.asc, *.md5, *.sha files)

  Deploy the mirrored updatesite:

  • on people.apache.org, copy the updatesite files to /www/www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite (with their *.asc, *.md5, *.sha files)
    • there should be the digest.zip and site.xml
    • there should be the org.apache.ivyde.eclipse and org.apache.ivy jars in the plugins folder
    • there should be the org.apache.ivyde.feature and org.apache.ivy.feature jars in the features folder

  Update the documentation

  • update the history entries. In svn/site/ivyde/history, svn pe svn:externals .
    • update latest-milestone: latest-milestone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/ivyde/tags/$VERSION/docImage Added
    • add an entry: $VERSION https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/ivy/ivyde/tags/$VERSION/docImage Added
  • update the toc.json:
    • by adding the following data to the correct abstract node:

      Code Block
      javascript javascript
      { "title":"$VERSION", "importRoot":"history/$VERSION", "importNode":"index" }

    • update the title of the latest-milestone history entry:

      Code Block
      javascript javascript
      "title":"Documentation ($VERSION)"

  Other

  • Update Jira: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE^{Image Added}
    • mark the version as released