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svn commit: r1692097 - /zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html

Author: paulmerlin
Date: Tue Jul 21 12:30:06 2015
New Revision: 1692097

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1692097
Log:
zest: update release process documentation

Modified:
    zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html

Modified: zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html?rev=1692097&r1=1692096&r2=1692097&view=diff
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--- zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html (original)
+++ zest/site/content/java/develop/releasing-apache.html Tue Jul 21 12:30:06 2015
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ svn checkout https://dist.apache.org/rep
     ├── zest-java           # Apache Zest™ (Java Edition) source
     ├── zest-svn            # https://zest.apache.org/ website
     ├── zest-dist-dev       # Releases candidate distributions
-    └── zest-dist-release   # Releases distributions</pre></div><div class="section" title="Build Apache Zest™ (Java Edition)"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_build_apache_zest_java_edition"></a>Build Apache Zest™ (Java Edition)</h5></div></div></div><p>Ensure you can test, build and sign Zest, including artifact signing, see the <a class="link" href="build-system.html" title="Zest™ Build System">Build System</a> tutorial.</p></div><div class="section" title="Install Jekyll"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_install_jekyll"></a>Install Jekyll</h5></div></div></div><p>Moreover, you will need to have a valid <a class="ulink" href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_top">Jekyll</a> installation as the Apache Zest™ <a class="ulink" href="https://zest.apache.org/" target="_top">website</a> is baked with it.</p></div><div class="section" title="Setup git flow"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="tit
 le"><a id="_setup_git_flow"></a>Setup git flow</h5></div></div></div><p><code class="literal">git-flow</code> is a git extension that add git commands to easily use the git flow branching model the Apache Zest™ project follows.
+    └── zest-dist-release   # Releases distributions</pre></div><div class="section" title="Build Apache Zest™ (Java Edition)"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_build_apache_zest_java_edition"></a>Build Apache Zest™ (Java Edition)</h5></div></div></div><p>Ensure you can test, build and sign Zest, including artifact signing, see the <a class="link" href="build-system.html" title="Zest™ Build System">Build System</a> tutorial.</p></div><div class="section" title="Install Jekyll"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_install_jekyll"></a>Install Jekyll</h5></div></div></div><p>Moreover, you will need to have a valid <a class="ulink" href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_top">Jekyll</a> installation as the Apache Zest™ <a class="ulink" href="https://zest.apache.org/" target="_top">website</a> is generated using it.</p></div><div class="section" title="Setup git flow"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class
 ="title"><a id="_setup_git_flow"></a>Setup git flow</h5></div></div></div><p><code class="literal">git-flow</code> is a git extension that add git commands to easily use the git flow branching model the Apache Zest™ project follows.
 See the <a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/nvie/gitflow/wiki/Installation" target="_top">installation instructions</a>.</p></div><div class="section" title="Setup git signing"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_setup_git_signing"></a>Setup git signing</h5></div></div></div><p>Ensure you can sign git tags.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git config --global user.signingkey &lt;YOUR-PGP-ID&gt;</pre><p>See the <a class="ulink" href="https://git-scm.com/book/tr/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work" target="_top">Git Tools - Signing Your Work</a> section of the Git book.</p></div><div class="section" title="Setup Apache Nexus credentials"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_setup_apache_nexus_credentials"></a>Setup Apache Nexus credentials</h5></div></div></div><p>See the Apache <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html" target="_top">Publishing Maven Artifacts</a> guide and the Apache Zes
 t™ (Java Edition) <a class="link" href="build-system.html" title="Zest™ Build System">Build System</a> tutorial.</p></div><div class="section" title="Update the KEYS file if needed."><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_update_the_literal_keys_literal_file_if_needed"></a>Update the <code class="literal">KEYS</code> file if needed.</h5></div></div></div><p>The reference <code class="literal">KEYS</code> file can be found at the <code class="literal">zest-java</code> repository’s root.</p><p>Diff the ones present in the <code class="literal">dev</code> and <code class="literal">release</code> distribution areas:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">diff zest-java/KEYS zest-dist-dev/KEYS
 diff zest-java/KEYS zest-dist-release/KEYS</pre><p>And update them if needed:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cp zest-java/KEYS zest-dist-dev/KEYS
 cp zest-java/KEYS zest-dist-release/KEYS
@@ -96,15 +96,19 @@ fixing
 marking them as <code class="literal">INVALID</code> or <code class="literal">WONTFIX</code>
 </li><li class="listitem">
 changing their fix version to another unreleased version
-</li></ul></div><p>See the <a class="ulink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST" target="_top">ZEST</a> project on JIRA.</p></div><div class="section" title="Prepare Release Notes"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_prepare_release_notes"></a>Prepare Release Notes</h5></div></div></div><p>Apache Zest™ release notes are generated from JIRA issues.</p><p>Open the target Zest™ version’s release notes in <a class="ulink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:roadmap-panel" target="_top">JIRA</a> and review them.</p><p>JIRA can produces release notes as HTML or plain-text.
-We will use plain-text release notes in e-mails and will need to convert the HTML releases notes to Asciidoc for use in the website.</p><p>Prepare the two following files:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist"><li class="listitem">
-<code class="literal">apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt</code>
-</li><li class="listitem">
-<code class="literal">apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.adoc</code>
-</li></ul></div><p>We will use them later.</p></div><div class="section" title="Create a release candidate branch"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_create_a_release_candidate_branch"></a>Create a release candidate branch</h5></div></div></div><p>We use <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</code> where <code class="literal">RELEASE-VERSION</code> is the target release version and <code class="literal">RC#</code> for Release Candidate and an incremental number in case the release process has to be done several times.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git flow release start &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre><p>This will eventually generates a <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</code> tag that we will rename to <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</code> if the vote passes, see below.</p></div><div class="section" title="Build and audit distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_build_
 and_audit_distributions"></a>Build and audit distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Make a complete build:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; clean check buildAll</pre><p>Review the release distributions in <code class="literal">build/distributions</code>.</p><p>If any, make the required changes, commit them and iterate.</p></div><div class="section" title="Close the release candidate branch"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_close_the_release_candidate_branch"></a>Close the release candidate branch</h5></div></div></div><p>Once you are satisfied with the produced artifacts, close the release candidate branch:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git flow release finish &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre></div><div class="section" title="Checkout the release candidate tag"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_checkout_the_release_candidate_tag"></a>Checkout the release candidate 
 tag</h5></div></div></div><p>To build the release candidate bits, we need to checkout the release candidate tag, that will eventually be promoted as a signed release tag, because the Apache Zest™ build system generates versionning information based on git metadata.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git checkout &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre></div><div class="section" title="Build artifacts and distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_build_artifacts_and_distributions"></a>Build artifacts and distributions</h5></div></div></div><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; clean check buildAll</pre></div><div class="section" title="Stage maven artifacts"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_stage_maven_artifacts"></a>Stage maven artifacts</h5></div></div></div><p>Stage artifacts to <a class="ulink" href="https://repository.apache.org/" target="_top">repository.apache.org</a
 > :</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; release</pre><p>Close the staging Nexus repository by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#close-stage" target="_top">Closing the staged repository</a> guide.</p></div><div class="section" title="Upload distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_upload_distributions"></a>Upload distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Upload source and binary distributions, checksums and signatures to <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a>:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cp zest-java/build/distributions/* zest-dist-dev/
+</li></ul></div><p>See the <a class="ulink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST" target="_top">ZEST</a> project on JIRA.</p></div><div class="section" title="Prepare Release-Notes"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_prepare_release_notes"></a>Prepare Release-Notes</h5></div></div></div><p>Apache Zest™ release-notes are generated from JIRA issues.</p><p>Open the target Zest™ version’s release-notes in <a class="ulink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:roadmap-panel" target="_top">JIRA</a> and review them.</p><p>JIRA can produces release-notes as HTML or plain-text.
+Set it up to generate plain-text release-notes.</p><p>We will need these in several formats.
+Starting from the plain-text one we will generate the others.</p><p>First save the text-plain release-notes in a file named <code class="literal">apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt</code>.</p><p>Convert to Asciidoc:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cat apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt | \
+  sed -e "s/* \[ZEST-\([0-9]\)*\]/- https:\/\/issues.apache.org\/jira\/browse\/ZEST-\1[ZEST-\1]/" | \
+  sed -e "s/^\*\*/===/" &gt; apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.adoc</pre><p>Convert to Markdown:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cat apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt | \
+  sed -e "s/* \[ZEST-\([0-9]\)*\]/- [ZEST-\1](https:\/\/issues.apache.org\/jira\/browse\/ZEST-\1)/" | \
+  sed -e "s/^\*\*/###/" &gt; apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.md</pre><p>You should then have the two following files:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">.
+├── apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt
+├── apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.adoc
+└── apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.md</pre><p>We will use them later.</p></div><div class="section" title="Create a RC branch"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_create_a_rc_branch"></a>Create a RC branch</h5></div></div></div><p>We use <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</code> where <code class="literal">RELEASE-VERSION</code> is the target release version and <code class="literal">RC#</code> for Release Candidate and an incremental number in case the release process has to be done several times.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git flow release start &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre><p>This will eventually generates a <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</code> tag that we will rename to <code class="literal">&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</code> if the vote passes, see below.</p></div><div class="section" title="Build and audit distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="
 title"><a id="_build_and_audit_distributions"></a>Build and audit distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Make a complete build:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; clean check buildAll checkDists</pre><p>Review the release distributions in <code class="literal">build/distributions</code>.</p><p>If any, make the required changes, commit them and iterate.</p></div><div class="section" title="Close the RC branch"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_close_the_rc_branch"></a>Close the RC branch</h5></div></div></div><p>Once you are satisfied with the produced artifacts, close the release candidate branch:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git flow release finish &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre></div><div class="section" title="Checkout the RC tag"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_checkout_the_rc_tag"></a>Checkout the RC tag</h5></div></div></div><p>To build the release candidat
 e bits, we need to checkout the release candidate tag, that will eventually be promoted as a signed release tag, because the Apache Zest™ build system generates versionning information based on git metadata.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">git checkout &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-RC#</pre></div><div class="section" title="Build RC artifacts and distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_build_rc_artifacts_and_distributions"></a>Build RC artifacts and distributions</h5></div></div></div><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; clean check buildAll checkDists</pre></div><div class="section" title="Stage RC maven artifacts"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_stage_rc_maven_artifacts"></a>Stage RC maven artifacts</h5></div></div></div><p>Stage artifacts to <a class="ulink" href="https://repository.apache.org/" target="_top">repository.apache.org</a> :</p><pre class="programlis
 ting brush: shell">./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; uploadArchives</pre><p>Close the staging Nexus repository by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#close-stage" target="_top">Closing the staged repository</a> guide.</p></div><div class="section" title="Upload RC distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_upload_rc_distributions"></a>Upload RC distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Upload source and binary distributions, checksums and signatures to <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a>:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cp zest-java/build/distributions/* zest-dist-dev/
 cd zest-dist-dev
-svn add --force
-svn commit -m "zest: upload &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; to dist/dev/zest"</pre><p>Go grab some coffee/tea/beer, this will take some time.</p></div></div><div class="section" title="Run the vote"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a id="_run_the_vote"></a>Run the vote</h4></div></div></div><p>Send a "VOTE" to the <a class="ulink" href="mailto:dev@zest.apache.org" target="_top">developer mailing list</a> including links to release artifacts. A VOTE always contains two parts. Send an email to the developer mailing list with the subject line:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">[VOTE] Release Zest (Java Edition) version &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</pre><p>Here is a sample template:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">Dear community,
+svn add * --force
+svn commit -m "zest: upload &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; to dist/dev/zest"</pre></div></div><div class="section" title="Run the vote"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a id="_run_the_vote"></a>Run the vote</h4></div></div></div><p>Send a "VOTE" to the <a class="ulink" href="mailto:dev@zest.apache.org" target="_top">developer mailing list</a> including links to release artifacts. A VOTE always contains two parts. Send an email to the developer mailing list with the subject line:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">[VOTE] Release Zest (Java Edition) version &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</pre><p>Here is a sample template:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">Dear community,
 
 I am happy to start the VOTE thread for Apache Zest (Java Edition) &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;!
 
@@ -134,27 +138,32 @@ git checkout master
 git push origin master
 git checkout develop
 git push origin master
-git push origin --tags</pre></div><div class="section" title="Publish"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_publish"></a>Publish</h5></div></div></div><p>Promote the staged Nexus repository so it gets synched to Maven Central by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#promote" target="_top">Promoting a repo</a> guide.</p><p>Move the release distributions, checksums and signatures from <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a> to <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/zest</a></p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">mv zest-dist-dev/*&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;*.* zest-dist-release/
+git push origin --tags</pre></div><div class="section" title="Publish bits"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_publish_bits"></a>Publish bits</h5></div></div></div><p>Promote the staged Nexus repository so it gets synched to Maven Central by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#promote" target="_top">Promoting a repo</a> guide.</p><p>Move the release distributions, checksums and signatures from <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a> to <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/zest</a></p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">mv zest-dist-dev/*&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;*.* zest-dist-release/
 cd zest-dist-dev
-svn add --force
+svn add * --force
 svn commit -m "zest: removing &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; from dist/dev/zest as the VOTE passed"
 cd ..
 cd zest-dist-release
-svn add --force
-svn commit -m "zest: upload &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; to dist/release/zest""</pre><p>Once again, go grab some coffee/tea/beer, this will take some time.</p></div><div class="section" title="Wait 24 hours"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_wait_24_hours"></a>Wait 24 hours</h5></div></div></div><p>For mirrors to pick up the new bits.</p></div><div class="section" title="Update the download page"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_update_the_download_page"></a>Update the download page</h5></div></div></div><p>Edit <code class="literal">zest-svn/site/src/_data/releases.yml</code> with the new release data.
-Upmost is the latest.</p><p>Then rebuild the website:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-svn
-jekyll build</pre><p>And publish it:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">svn add --force
-svn commit -m "zest: update website"</pre></div><div class="section" title="Register the release"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_register_the_release"></a>Register the release</h5></div></div></div><p>Register the new release at <a class="ulink" href="https://reporter.apache.org/" target="_top">reporter.apache.org</a></p></div><div class="section" title="Announce"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_announce"></a>Announce</h5></div></div></div><p>Finally, send an announcement to <a class="ulink" href="mailto:dev@zest.apache.org" target="_top">dev@</a> and <a class="ulink" href="mailto:users@zest.apache.org" target="_top">users@</a> mailing lists. Email announcements should have the subject line:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">[ANNOUNCE] Released Zest (Java Edition) version &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</pre><p>The announcement email should contains the release notes as text, remember you prepared a <code class="literal">apache
 -zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt</code> file with them.</p></div></div><div class="section" title="VOTE fails"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a id="_vote_fails"></a>VOTE fails</h4></div></div></div><div class="section" title="Drop artifacts and distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_drop_artifacts_and_distributions"></a>Drop artifacts and distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Drop the Nexus staging repository by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#drop" target="_top">Dropping a repo</a> guide.</p><p>Drop distributions, checksums and signatures from <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a></p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-dist-dev/
-rm "*&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;*.*"
-svn add --force
-svn commit -m "zest: dropping &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; from dist/dev/zest as the vote failed"</pre></div><div class="section" title="Push git changes"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_push_git_changes"></a>Push git changes</h5></div></div></div><p>We keep the release candidate git history.
+svn add * --force
+svn commit -m "zest: upload &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; to dist/release/zest""</pre></div><div class="section" title="Wait 24 hours"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_wait_24_hours"></a>Wait 24 hours</h5></div></div></div><p>For mirrors to pick up the new bits.</p></div><div class="section" title="Prepare an announcement"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_prepare_an_announcement"></a>Prepare an announcement</h5></div></div></div><p>Coordinate a press release with <a class="ulink" href="mailto:press@apache.org" target="_top">press@apache.org</a>.</p><pre class="literallayout">TODO</pre><p>You can reuse the release-notes content from the <code class="literal">txt</code>/<code class="literal">adoc</code>/<code class="literal">md</code> files created earlier.</p><p>This annoucement will be used in a veriety of media like emails, websites etc…
+Start with a text version and once satisfied produce at least an Asciidoc version.</p></div><div class="section" title="Update the Zest™ website"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_update_the_zest_website"></a>Update the Zest™ website</h5></div></div></div><p>Generate the documentation and javadoc minisite:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-java
+./gradlew -Dversion=&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; archiveJavadocs manuals</pre><p>This will automatically put all files into the <code class="literal">zest-svn</code> website repository.</p><p>Create a new post on the Zest™ website by creating a new Asciidoc file:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-svn
+touch site/src/_posts/YYYY-MM-DD-apache-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;.adoc
+open !$</pre><p>You can reuse the Asciidoc formatted announcement content.</p><p>Finally, edit <code class="literal">zest-svn/site/src/_data/releases.yml</code> with the new release data.
+Upmost is the latest.</p><p>You can live-preview your changes to the Zest™ website:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-svn
+jekyll serve</pre><p>Once you are satisfied with the changes, build the production website:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-svn
+jekyll build</pre><p>And publish it:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">svn add * --force
+svn commit -m "zest: update website"</pre></div><div class="section" title="Register the release"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_register_the_release"></a>Register the release</h5></div></div></div><p>Register the new release at <a class="ulink" href="https://reporter.apache.org/" target="_top">reporter.apache.org</a></p></div><div class="section" title="Announce"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_announce"></a>Announce</h5></div></div></div><p>Finally, send an announcement to <a class="ulink" href="mailto:dev@zest.apache.org" target="_top">dev@</a> and <a class="ulink" href="mailto:users@zest.apache.org" target="_top">users@</a> mailing lists. Email announcements should have the subject line:</p><pre class="programlisting brush: text">[ANNOUNCE] Released Zest (Java Edition) version &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;</pre><p>The announcement email should contains the release-notes as text, remember they are in the <code class="literal">apach
 e-zest-java-&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;-release-notes.txt</code> file you created earlier.</p></div></div><div class="section" title="VOTE fails"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a id="_vote_fails"></a>VOTE fails</h4></div></div></div><div class="section" title="Record failure"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_record_failure"></a>Record failure</h5></div></div></div><p>We keep the release candidate git history.
 It can be useful for reviewers to have access to it.
 Remember, we created a release candidate branch and tags, no signed release tag.</p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-java
 git checkout master
 git push origin master
 git checkout develop
 git push origin master
-git push origin --tags</pre></div><div class="section" title="Start over"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_start_over"></a>Start over</h5></div></div></div><p>If a new RC is to be created, restart the process as described above.</p></div></div></div><div xmlns="" xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common" class="footer"><p>
+git push origin --tags</pre></div><div class="section" title="Drop RC artifacts and distributions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_drop_rc_artifacts_and_distributions"></a>Drop RC artifacts and distributions</h5></div></div></div><p>Drop the Nexus staging repository by following the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#drop" target="_top">Dropping a repo</a> guide.</p><p>Drop distributions, checksums and signatures from <a class="ulink" href="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest/" target="_top">dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/zest</a></p><pre class="programlisting brush: shell">cd zest-dist-dev/
+rm "*&lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt;*.*"
+svn add * --force
+svn commit -m "zest: dropping &lt;RELEASE-VERSION&gt; from dist/dev/zest as the vote failed"</pre></div><div class="section" title="Start over"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="_start_over"></a>Start over</h5></div></div></div><p>If a new RC is to be created, restart the process as described above.</p></div></div></div><div xmlns="" xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common" class="footer"><p>
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