DRAFT Procedure for creating a release using M2

'This is currently a discussion page, and is not (yet) policy

This assumes that the Commons Proxy is about to vote on 1.0-RC3.

• Tag "proxy-1.0-rc3" but with the version number set to "1.0". This is so the release does not have to be rebuilt later just to fix the version.
  
• Check out the tag proxy-1.0-rc3 into a clean local working directory
  
• Build the release artifacts - I think there's a couple of options here:
  
  • Run the following maven command:
    mvn site javadoc:jar source:jar assembly:assembly
    This will create all the artifacts - jars and src and binary distros, but then you need to create checksums and sign
    
  • Run the following maven command:
    mvn -Prc -DcreateChecksum=true site install
    This should create all the artifacts installed in your local m2 repository, signed and checksums (note it also creates checksums for signature files - I delete those)
    
• Upload the artifacts to people.apache.org/~<userid>/proxy-1.0-rc3 (e.g.) and call a vote on dev@
  
• Make sure that the KEYS file is in SVN and the signing key has been added to it.
  
• The vote e-mail should include:
  
  • URL for artifacts
  • URL for SVN tag
  • URL for website
    
• If the VOTE passes, then the RC tag can just be copied to the formal release tag, i.e. without the RC suffix. The RC tag should be kept.
  
• If the VOTE fails, the failed RC tag can be deleted if required.