[UIMA-6425] uimaFIT 3.3.0 release

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.0uimaFIT
• Component/s: uimaFIT
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 11/Mar/22 10:31
• Updated: 08/Jun/22 07:48
• Resolved: 08/Jun/22 07:48

Description

Prepare the code

• Create release branch
• Update README.md file
• Update RELEASE_NOTES.md file
• Make sure to remove all SNAPSHOT repositories and SNAPSHOT dependencies
• Update Jira version in POM for fixed-issues report
• Update API comparison version in POM

Release build

• Clean local m2 repository
• Do a test build locally with -Papache-release
• Check the issues report in issuesFixed if it looks ok
• Do the release build (mvn release:prepare release:perform)
• Close the staging repository at https://repository.apache.org/ -> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1285
• Check auto-staging has uploaded the artifacts -> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uimafit-3.3.0-RC-202205301128-0ca2049/

Vote

• Call for a vote
• VOTE (wait at least for 72 hours, at least 3 +1 votes required for release)
• Post vote results (sign mail using same GPG key that was used to sign release)

Publish release

• Close release in Jira and GitHub
• Release staging repository at https://repository.apache.org/
• Move the release artifacts from the staging spot to the dist spot in SVN: svn mv -m "Moving uimaFIT 3.3.0 final to release spot" https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uimafit-3.3.0-RC-202205301128-0ca2049 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/uima/uimafit-3.3.0
• Update the "current" release on the website with the new content (and delete anything no longer part of the "current" release)
• Copy the "current" release to a versioned release svn copy -m "UIMA-6425 uimaFIT 3.3.0 release" https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/d/uimafit-current https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/d/uimafit-3.3.0
• Copy the versioned release to the archive spot already: svn copy -m "UIMA-6425 uimaFIT 3.3.0 release" https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/d/uimafit-3.3.0 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/archive/docs/d/uimafit-3.3.0
• Delete the previous version documentation: svn rm -m "Deleting documentation for previous release" https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/d/uimafit-3.2.0
• Create a new git tag e.g. rel/uimaj-3.2.0 and remove the one not prefixed with rel
• Merge the release branch into the development branch (e.g. main)
• Create new maintenance branch (when doing feature releases)
• Update the version on the development branch (when doing feature releases)
• Updated website
• Created release on GitHub
• Post release announcement to [e-mail] (Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail] – once release has arrived at https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/uima/uimaj-core/ – sign mail using same GPG key that was used to sign release)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #171