Release Planning - Best Practice Guide2

After our first release, it is useful to document the steps that the release manager made in order that later releases are more easily performed.

Preparation

• Create a release tag in in Apache Jira
• Make sure all issues tagged with the release are finished

Cutting a release

1. do a svn update to an empty directory
2. delete or rename your .m2/repository directory
3. Is the release able to be compiled?: do a "mvn compile. There should be no errors.
4. Are all tests successful? do a "mvn test". There should be no tests that fail
5. Is the release runnable? Do a "mvn jetty:run". Can you start ESME and perform the basic tests (List missing)