[SOLR-15800] Make publishing the Ref Guide a step in the release process

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Cassandra Targett
• Created: 16/Nov/21 13:11
• Updated: 12/May/22 00:25
• Resolved: 30/Dec/21 20:57

Description

Publishing the Ref Guide for each release is still done "outside" the Solr artifact release process, done basically manually by a single person. So when she isn't available, it seems to often get skipped.

If we agree that the Ref Guide is an important part of the release, and that we should release a new version in conjunction with the artifacts, then it should be part of the overall release process.

I don't understand the release process or wizard well enough to know how to integrate the steps, so cannot tackle this myself.

The steps are documented in our source repo: https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/dev-docs/ref-guide/publish.adoc

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #419