[jira] [Created] (HBASE-24318) Create-release scripts fixes and enhancements

["Matthew Foley (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Matthew Foley created HBASE-24318:
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             Summary: Create-release scripts fixes and enhancements
                 Key: HBASE-24318
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24318
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: create-release
    Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0
         Environment: Linux Docker container, or Mac OS X without Docker
            Reporter: Matthew Foley


The create-release tools are a set of scripts that promote best practice in making Apache releases, by automating most of the steps and running them under Docker for reliability. However, the current state of the scripts has many bugs and ambiguities.  

The proposed PR cleans up the code and clarifies usage. It enables:
- Clear statement of the four steps, which are now called `tag`, `publish-dist`, `publish-snapshot`, and `publish-release` (the latter two being mutually exclusive alternatives).
- Ability to do the three tag-dist-release steps with a single command, or do any of the steps singly. (Running singly had bugs and unfulfilled dependencies before.)
- Ability to do a reliable and useful "dry run" of all steps or each step, and chain together the tag step with publish steps in a dry run.
- Ability to run any or all steps correctly in Docker or outside of Docker, on Linux and Mac.
- Cleaned up all `shellcheck` errors in the scripts, and removed ambiguities and redundancies in the many environment variables used.

In addition, the changes move the code toward being more general / less HBase-specific, so it can be run on any Apache project (while still accommodating HBase-specific features regarding how sub-projects are named and organized in Jira and release repos). In future I propose to take it further along that path, and move create-release into Yetus (recognizing that this create-release code has been passed between a couple other projects already).

These changes have NO IMPACT on HBase functionality.



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