Apache Airavata
Finalizing a release
The artifacts in the repository are not yet mirrored and available for maven to download. Promote the staged nexus artifacts, but releasing them.
Checkin the source and binary artifacts into distribution svn which will be pulled by all mirrors within 24 hours. The dist/dev svn is not mirrored, but the dist/release is.
svn copy https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airavata/${project.version}/RC{number} https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/airavata/${project.version} -m "Committing Airavata Source and Binary Release for ${project.name}-${project.version}
Update the staged website
Publish the website
Delete the prior versions
Update the JIRA versions page to close all issues, mark the version as "released", and set the date to the date that the release was approved. You may also need to make a new release entry for the next release.
Announcing the release