[CALCITE-2381] Update HOWTOs to clarify a few gotchas

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0, avatica-1.13.0
• Component/s: avatica, core
• Assignee: Francis Chuang
• Reporter: Francis Chuang
• Created: 26/Jun/18 00:52
• Updated: 20/Jul/18 08:18
• Resolved: 09/Jul/18 23:41

Description

Some issues I ran into while releasing Avatica 1.12.0 that should be clarified in the HOWTO document on the website:

1. GPG signs using a default key (I think this is the first key, if no default is set). I had multiple keys and my Apache key was not my first key.
2. I was not 100% sure that `-DdevelopmentVersion` should be the version after the current release.
3. It took a while to work out how to authenticate against Apache's maven repo. See http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#dev-env for solution

The HOWTO for Calcite should also be updated to aid future release managers.