DOSGi release build

Preparations

• Make sure your .m2/settings.xml contains your user and password

 <servers>
    <server>
      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
      <username>your-user</username>
      <password>your-password</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>apache.releases.https</id>
      <username>your-user</username>
      <password>your-passwd</password>
    </server>
</servers>

• Make sure you have a pgp key
• Make sure all jira issues for the version are resolved
• Export the jira issues from the jira roadmap view of the version you are doing and update distribution/multi-bundle/src/main/release/release_notes.txt

Do the release in maven

• mvn release:prepare
• mvn release:perform
• go to https://repository.apache.org, log in with you apache id, find your staging repo and close it

Check completeness

• Check the tag is there in subversion and contains the correct version in the poms
• Check that the release notes are correct
• Check that the staging repo is visible and contains the correct release version

Send vote mail to dev list

Release maven repo

Delete staged release

Sometimes people find issues in a staged release. In this case we need to remove the release and redo it.

Delete the tag locally and on the git server

• git tag --delete tagname
  git push --delete origin tagname