[KAFKA-13284] Use sftp protocol in release.py to upload release candidate artifacts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0
• Assignee: Mickael Maison
• Reporter: Konstantine Karantasis
• Created: 09/Sep/21 05:44
• Updated: 18/Oct/21 08:12
• Resolved: 18/Oct/21 08:12

Description

home.apache.org has restricted access recently to sftp only.

This prevents release.py from uploading a single archive with the artifacts of a release candidate using rsync and then unpacking the archive with ssh

The script could be changed to mirror the contents and upload / delete files individually using the sftp protocol. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11394