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Releasing Apache OpenJPA
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Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
== Summary
These instructions describe how perform an official release of the Apache OpenJPA project.
== Prerequisits
* You need a valid Apache account and
* Maven installed on your box
* Java 6 or 7
* Do NOT Release with Java 8 yet!
* TODO probably we require a ~/.m2/toolchains.xml set up correctly in the future
== Manual Release Preparation Steps
* Make sure you have the latest version checked out and no local modifications
$> svn up
$> svn st
This should not show any dirty files
* Run a full build
$> mvn clean install
== Performing the Release
We use maven to roll the release. Please make sure you understand how
the Apache Maven maven-release-plugin works:
http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/
=== Running the release prepare steps
$> mvn release:prepare
Depending on your location you probably get an error for the first time.
This happens if you hit a svn mirror which is not updated quickly enough.
Simply rerun this step after a few seconds. No worries, maven will continue
exactly where it left off.
=== Validating the tag
You should now get a fresh tag in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openjpa/tags/
Please verify that the tag looks good and that all pom.xml files really got updated.
=== Running the release perform steps
$> mvn release:perform
This will finally do a clean checkout from the freshly generated tag and
== Verifying the Maven Staging Repository
Login in to https://repository.apache.org/
Navigate to 'Staging Repositories' and verify the content of your release.
Then 'close' the staging and copy the URL of the staging repository
== Call a VOTE