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git fetch apache # to make sure you have the latest mastergit checkout apache/branch-x.y.zgit checkout -b x.y.z-patch-foo # the name doesn't matter - it will only be in your local workstationgit cherry-pick b4d1a3... # or whatever git hashes# then resolve conflicts, if there are any# cherry-pick some more commits:git cherry-pick ....git cherry-pick .....git push apache HEAD:branch-x.y.zDo the tag
git fetch apachegit checkout apache/branch-x.y.zgit tag -a x.y.z-rcw -m "x.y.z release candidate w" # when making release candidate w of version x.y.zgit push apache x.y.z-rcwiii. Create the release artifacts
This step involves several steps. First, you create the tarball. Next you will create hashes, and a signature. Full details are provided in the script.
You should also verify that every source file has an Apache-approved header. Apache has a script for this process, it's called apache rat.
iii. Publish the release artifacts to the dev SVN repo
svn checkout https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/quickstep/cd quickstep/
# The directory layout is x.y.z/RCw, where w is the release candidate number - RC1 is the first candidate, RC2 the second, and so on.mkdir -p x.y.z/RCwcd x.y.z/RCwcp /tmp/apache-quickstep-incubating-x.y.z.tar.gz* ./svn add .svn commit --username=YOUR_APACHE_USER_NAME -m "Quickstep-x.y.z RCw"...