[DERBY-4850] Master JIRA for improving release processes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Build tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
• Created: 14/Oct/10 16:01
• Updated: 19/Sep/15 15:37

Description

This is a central JIRA for organizing our improvements to Derby's release process.

Issue Links

• incorporates: DERBY-4846 On release process, make a new target to verify release file structure and/or signatures
• incorporates: DERBY-4847 Errors should be displayed if using wrong CLASSPATH to make documentation target for release
• incorporates: DERBY-2571 Create master scripts or ant targets for creating release branches, building all release artifacts, and publishing those artifacts to the Apache mirrors
• incorporates: DERBY-4848 Create lighter weight process without release notes, maven, mirrors, etc on the branches for bug fix releases
• incorporates: DERBY-4855 Automate release publication steps
• is related to: DERBY-6835 Make the release scripts update the copyright year and version on the docs branch.