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Author: zoe
Date: Wed Mar 23 08:48:25 2011
New Revision: 1084509

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Modified: aries/site/trunk/content/development/releasingaries.mdtext
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 Title: ReleasingAries
 
 <a name="ReleasingAries-HowtodoanAriesRelease"></a>
-# How to do an Aries Release - Draft release by bundle process
+# How to do an Aries Release
+
+There are three types of Aries release:
+
+ 1. Releasing a single Aries bundle (or group of bundles)
+ 1. Releasing a distribution - a group of bundles that work together
+ 1. Releasing the samples
+
+The outline process is the same in all three cases, further on down this page there are a lot of details about how the
+Apache release process works and how to get yourself set up to run it, you should read thos section first if this is 
+your first release. If you are already familiar with the Apache process just use the high level descriptions in the
+next few paragraphs to perform releases.
+
+
+## Releasing a single bundle or group of bundles.
+
+### What to release? Make a list.
+The Apache release process will not let you release any bundle that has dependencies in -SNAPSHOTS. If, for example,
+a release of the blueprint API bundle is required the first step is to find and release any of
+its dependencies. Because Aries bundles are quite interdependent (see [here](ModuleDependencies) for an idea
+of how the modules relate to each other, it may be necessary to release quite a large number of bundles.
+
+
+### How to deal with JIRA
+Before actually doing any releasing work through the list of bundles and understand what defects have been fixed
+(add more about JIRA versions here)
+
+### What version will be released?
+For each bundle on the list check how it's package versions have changed since the last release.
+Based on this, use the versioning policy to determine the version of the bundle that should be released.
+
+### Then, for each bundle
+  * mvn release prepare
+  * mvn release perform
+
+### Complete the process
+Once the bundles are in the staging repository, start a vote on the release. After 72 hours close the vote. To complete
+the release process it is necessary to copy the new bundles to the dist dir and update table on the web pages.
+
+## Releasing a distribution
+
+
+## Releasing the samples.
+
+
+
+
+
 
 
 To create a release you will need to create the release artifacts and move