[KAFKA-15200] verify pre-requisite at start of release.py

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.7.0
• Assignee: Owen C.H. Leung
• Reporter: Divij Vaidya
• Created: 17/Jul/23 20:25
• Updated: 26/Oct/23 08:41
• Resolved: 26/Oct/23 08:41

Description

At the start of release.py, the first thing it should do is verify that dependency pre-requisites are satisfied. The pre-requisites are:

1. maven should be installed.
2. sftp should be installed. Connection to <user>@home.apache.org should be successful. Currently it is done manually at the step "Verify by using `sftp <your-apache-id>@home.apache.org`" in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Process
3. svn should be installed