[ARROW-1577] [JS] Package release script for NPM modules

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: JavaScript
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17590
• Assignee: Paul Taylor
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 20/Sep/17 03:23
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:15
• Resolved: 23/Nov/17 15:24

Description

Since the NPM JavaScript module may wish to release more frequently than the main Arrow "monorepo", we should create a script to produce signed NPM artifacts to use for voting:

• Update metadata for new version
• Run unit tests
• Create package tarballs with NPM
• GPG sign and create md5 and sha512 checksum files
• Upload to Apache dev SVN

i.e. like https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/dev/release/02-source.sh, but only for JavaScript.

We will also want to write instructions for Arrow developers to verify the tarballs to streamline the release votes

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1346