ReleaseProcess

THIS MATERIAL HAS NOW BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE CONTRIBUTORS GUIDE

Overview

(with thanks to Zoe Slattery)

Other Resources

• General release process rules:
  • http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html
  • http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
  • http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html

• Podling release management:
  • http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases
  • http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

• also a fantastic write-up (so Mark tells us) about how to release using the stuff inherited from org.apache:apache-parent:7 (as we do).
  • It was put together by Donald Woods, and can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/bval/cwiki/release-process.html

• Aries documentation also worth consulting http://aries.apache.org/development/releasingaries.html