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| Step | Tools | Automation potential |
|---|---|---|
| Staging release candidates | Maven, GPG | Small, iusually a single Maven command. Requires access to developer's Maven credentials and GPG keys |
| Starting the vote | Email, Jira | Medium, boilerplate text where placeholders are replaced |
| Counting the votes | Medium, reading emails and composing a release result mail | |
| Promotion - dist.apache.org | SVN | Small, adding/removing files from SVN. |
| Promotion - register with Apache Reporter Service | HTTP | Large, script already exists |
| Promotion - push to Maven Central | HTTP | Medium, interaction with Nexus |
| Promotions Promotion - update site | Git | Large - modifications are mostly automatic, a pull request can be automatically issued |
| Jira Update | Jira | Large - releasing current version, releasing new version, closing issues fixed in current version. |
| Sling Starter update | Git | Large - a pull request can be created when outdated Sling bundles are found in the Launchad |
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