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• run prepareReleaseCandidate.sh (./prepareReleaseCandidate.sh)
• announce that Release candidate is ready for testing (Release Testing)
  • Release testing page should contain
    • instructions how to build and run VIVO Release candidate or how to get credentials for an active and public VIVO instance (for instance https://vivo.tib.eu/vivorc)
    • links to google forms where community can provide test results and feedbacks
• analyze results of release candidate testing inside VIVO committers group and classify reported issue to release blockers and non-release blockers
• if there are release blockers, after resolving those issues, the new release candidate should be published, if not, release is ready to be published (see the next section)

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This will publish the artifacts to the Sonatype releases repository and start the process of syncing them with Maven Central, which may take several hours. When finished, they'll be available at httphttps://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/vivoweb.

Push Release Branch to develop and Maintenance

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