Release Process

1) Your Key needs to be signed into the KEYS file http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS
2) clone the repository to kafka-X.Y.Z-src
3) checkout the branch to release if releasing not off trunk
4) java -jar ../../apache-rat-0.8/apache-rat-0.8.jar (forgot to-do this in rc1,2,3 will do before running 4)
5) tag the branch and append (git tag -a releaseVersion) the "release notes" from JIRA
6) git push --tags
7) now get rid of git, rm -fr .git/*
8) cd ..
9) tar -czvf kafka-X.Y.Z-src.tgz kafka-X.Y.Z-src/*
10) sign the src

• gpg --print-md MD5 kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz > kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz.md5
• gpg --armor --output kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz.asc --detach-sig kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz
• gpg --print-md SHA1 kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz > kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz.sh1

11) scp kafka_X.Y.Z-src* to a folder on a web server
12) ssh in a virtual machine, been using http://vagrantup.com
13) wget the file
14) tar -xvf kafka-X.Y.Z-src.tgz
15) verify signings and hashes
16) run quick start
17) cd kafka-X.Y.Z-src && ./sbt release-tar
18) sign the binary

• gpg --print-md MD5 kafka_2.N.0-X.Y.Z.tar.gz > kafka_2.N.0-X.Y.Z.tar.gz.md5
• gpg --armor --output kafka_2.N.0-X.Y.Z.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig kafka_2.N.0-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
• gpg --print-md SHA1 kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz > kafka_X.Y.Z-src.tgz.sh1
  19) create file RELEASE_NOTES.html

1. add the html version of release notes
   vi RELEASE-NOTES.html
   Go to Apache JIRA and click on the version X.Y.Z
   (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA/fixforversion/12317243)
   Click Release Notes
   Configure it to output html
   copy paste that to RELEASE-NOTES.html
   If the release includes new Features, include the following in the
   Release Notes -
   20) upload files to directory for voting
   21) ./sbt "++2.8.0 publish"
   22) ./sbt "++2.8.2 publish"
   23) ./sbt "++2.9.1 publish"
   24) ./sbt "++2.9.2 publish"
   25) ./sbt "++2.10.1 publish"
   26) close nexus staging if everything checks out
   27) call VOTE