Jenkins Release Builds

How to set up ASF Jenkins jobs to test a release branch. In order to perform these steps, you need to have an ASF Jenkins admin account and be logged in.

• Delete all old release branch jobs. (When there are multiple active release branches – rare for Lucene/Solr – be cautious about this.)
  • Jenkins words this as "Delete Project", and can be seen in the contextual menu listed when hovering your mouse over a job/project in the list.
• For each non-Clover & non-BadApple stable branch job - see all Solr jobs here: https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Solr/
  • as of this writing, the set of jobs to do the following for is:
    • Solr-Artifacts-9.x
    • Solr-Check-9.x
    • Solr-Docker-Nightly-9.x
    • Solr-Smoketest-9.x
    • solr-reference-guide-official
  • Copy the job (Jenkins|New Item|Copy existing job), and name the new job by substituting the release version for the version in the copied job's name, e.g. s/7.x/7.5/.
  • It's a good practice to create the job as initially disabled (check the checkbox next to "Disable Build (No new builds will be executed until the project is re-enabled.)"), and then enable them all at once after you've finished creating them.
  • Switch the Branch Specifier under Branches to Build in the Source Code Management section to point to the release branch, e.g. */branch_7x -> */branch_7_5
  • All jobs are scheduled to run periodically. No changes should be required on the cloned jobs to handle this properly.
• If you created the new jobs in the disabled state, enable them all now.