[BEAM-8117] Improve the preparation_before_release script

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: project-management
• Assignee: Yifan Zou
• Reporter: Yifan Zou
• Created: 30/Aug/19 06:39
• Updated: 16/May/20 14:08
• Resolved: 03/Sep/19 21:45

Description

• Setup GPG keys: 
• The preparation_before_release.sh interrupted. Git command failed when configuring git signing key.
• It required a PMC to add the key in dev@ list, the script doesn’t really help.
• Apache requires the key has at least 4096 bits, but script generates the 3072b key by default. There were a few options to select the size of the key, but there was no instruction indicates which option the release manager should choose. 
• Solution: I follow the Apache official release signing guide to generate the RSA keys then asked a PMC member adding it to the dev and release key list.
• Reference: GPG Cheat Sheet

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9463