[ARROW-9703] [Developer][Archery] Restartable cherry-picking process for creating maintenance branches

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Archery, Developer Tools
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25759
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 12/Aug/20 12:55
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:08
• Resolved: 15/Sep/20 20:29

Description

Archery already had some features to generate the cherry-picking commands, but conflicting patches can make the manual application/reapplication procedure complicated.

1. Add an archery command to recreate the maintenance branch based on a jira release.
2. Extend the above command with an option to continout the cherry picking process after a conslifc resolution.

Issue Links

• fixes: ARROW-9487 [Developer] Cover the archery release utilities with unittests
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7932