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| Staging release candidates | Maven, GPG | Small, iusually a single Maven command. Requires access to developer's Maven credentials and GPG keys | Not planned | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Starting the vote | Email, Jira | Medium, boilerplate text where placeholders are replaced |
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| Counting the votes | Medium, reading emails and composing a release result mail |
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| Promotion - dist.apache.org | SVN | Small, adding/removing files from SVN. |  | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Promotion - register with Apache Reporter Service | HTTP | Large, script already exists |
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| Promotion - push to Maven Central | HTTP | Medium, interaction with Nexus |
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| Promotion - update site | Git | Large - modifications are mostly automatic, a pull request can be automatically issued | Planned | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Jira Update | Jira | Large - releasing current version, releasing new version, closing issues fixed in current version. |
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| Sling Starter update | Git | Large - a pull request can be created when outdated Sling bundles are found in the LaunchadLaunchpad | Planned |
The proposed solution comes with two parts:
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