Making an OpenJPA Release
These instructions guide through the steps of making an official OpenJPA release.
Prerequisites
- You should have read the Apache Guide To Release Management During Incubation
- You must have shell access to people.apache.org
- You must have the following utilities installed on your local machine and available in your path:
Tasks that need to be performed for each release
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Make sure the #One time setup steps have been performed |
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Update the POMs to remove "-SNAPSHOT" from the version |
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Commit the POM changes |
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Tag the release by making a SVN copy of the head or designated revision |
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svn copy -r ###### https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts2/trunk https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts2/tags/STRUTS_#_#_# -m "Tag r###### as Struts #.#.#" |
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Assemble the release |
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mvn clean install site -P xwork,plugins,apps,all,pre-assembly cd assembly mvn assembly:assembly |
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Sign the release artifacts (in |
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gpg --armor --output struts-#.#.#-all.zip.asc --detach-sig struts-#.#.#-all.zip openssl md5 < struts-#.#.#-all.zip > struts-#.#.#-all.zip.mdr |
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Deploy the artifacts to our Maven repository |
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mvn deploy -P apps,plugins,pre-assembly |
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Prune any obsolete snapshots from |
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Update the POMs to next version number and add the "-SNAPSHOT" suffix |
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Commit the POM changes |
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Deploy the new snapshot |
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mvn -N install |
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Add the next version to our issue tracker for scheduling new features and fixes |
One time setup
These setup steps only need to be performed on a particular machine once.
Developers using Linux workstations can skip over the references to PuTTY and Cygwin
Create and install a SSH key
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Install PuTTY |
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Use PuttyGen to create a SSH key (see Putty help for details) |
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Use PuTTY to ssh to people.apache.org |
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Create a ~/.ssh folder |
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ssh to p.a.o |
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Create a |
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Configure putty to use your private key and save the session |
Create a PGP key
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Install cgywin, including utils/gpg |
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Generate a key with |
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Backup your cygwin home directory to another media |
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Add your key to {{ https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openjpa/site/docs/KEYS![]() }} |
Update Maven settings for our servers
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Create a settings.xml under .m2 (in your Document and Settings folder in Windows) |
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<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd"> <servers> <server> <id>people.apache.org</id> <username>$USERNAME</username> <privateKey>$PATH_TO_PRIVATE_KEY</privateKey> <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions> <filePermissions>644</filePermissions> </server> </servers> </settings> |
Expose a copy of known hosts to Maven
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From cygwin, ssh to people.apache.org, save the public key if prompted, and exit |
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cygwin will save the known hosts to your |
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From cygwin (not Windows) create another |
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Copy the |
Resources
- Apache Guide To Release Management During Incubation
- Signing Releases
- Wendy's notes on Release Signing
- Apache Mirroring Guidelines
- Struts Release Instructions (upon which these instructions are based)