Sub‐project Releasing

Prerequisites

• Check Resources availability

  Check if there is SNAPSHOT version dependency and upgrade to the release version before the tag/release.

• Contents checks

  Check the JBWS JIRA to make sure all the must-have features or issues are included

• Quality / testing gate

  • Make sure the CI is passed/green as expected.
  • Check if other components have some major CVE and it needs an upgrade

• PR queue

  • Review the PR queue and check all desired contributions are included

• Branch preparation

  • Branch the codebase in preparation for the release if necessary

• JDK and Maven to build the release

  • Check the JDK version to run the build is the latest 11
  • Maven is the latest version

Source Tagging

maven-release-plugin is the maven plugin we used to tag and change the development version:

mvn release:prepare -DskipTests=true

This is interactive command, and make sure you input the correct release version number before the next step.

Publish Artifacts

Uploading artifacts with the following commands:

git checkout new-tag-version

mvn deploy

After the artifacts are all uploaded, go to jboss nexus to publish these artifacts.