This document is intended to be used and kept up to date by the Fedora Release Manager.  It details the steps necessary to perform an official release of Fedora.

Before Release Day

Verify release privileges

To make sure release day goes smoothly, you should ensure that:

• You have an account with commit access for the fedora project on github. As a committer, you should already have this level of access.
• You have an account with edit privileges on the duraspace.org Confluence wiki.
• You have an oss.sonatype.org account and have requested to be given permission to publish to the org.fcrepo groupId by adding a comment to the Fedora Sonatype Hosting Ticket
• You have project configuration privileges on JIRA (you'll see an error here if you don't)
• Your maven settings (~/.m2/settings.xml) includes the following:

<settings>
  ...
  <servers>
    ...
    <server>
      <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
      <username>your-jira-id</username>
      <password>your-jira-pwd</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
      <username>your-jira-id</username>
      <password>your-jira-pwd</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>github</id>
      <username>your-github-id</username>
      <password>your-github-pwd</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
  ...
</settings>

Ensure you have a trusted code signing key

• create one if you haven't before
• ensure that it's listed within the contributor keys

Prepare and distribute test plan

The test plan should also be ready prior to code freeze.

It should include:

• Which platform/configuration combinations will be tested
• Which automated tests will be run, and by whom
• Which manual tests will be run, and by whom
• Which service compatibility tests (external search, external triplestore) will be run, and by whom
• Instructions on how testers will report on test results

Create release and development branches and begin final test phase

Create a release candidate branch and a development branch, release testing wiki page and notify developers to test.

RC_VERSION=4.5.1

Using the above variables, complete the below git commands for each module being released.

NOTE: The value of RC_VERSION will vary for each release.

git checkout master
git pull
git push origin master:${RC_VERSION}-RC
git push origin master:DEV

Tag the release candidate branch

git tag -a "<artifact-id>-${RC_VERSION}-RC-1" -m "<artifact-id>-${RC_VERSION}-RC-1"
git push origin --tags

Update online resources

If any online resources have been modified or added to during the release, these must be updated.

Release Day

Determine which modules will be released.

Create a new tab in the Fedora modules release plan spreadsheet.

Notes: 

1. Follow the release order of the spreadsheet plan
2. Some projects need pom.xml dependency version properties to be updated prior to release (e.g. fcrepo-camel-toolbox). This should be documented starting with 4.4.1.
3. fcrepo4-vagrant must have its 'install_scripts/fedora_camel_toolbox.sh' and 'install_scripts/config' scripts updated with non-SNAPSHOT non-LATEST version.

Variables Used

These variables will be used in the examples that follow.  The exact values of $ORG and $REPO will vary depending on which module is being released.

ORG=fcrepo4
REPO=fcrepo-module-auth-webac
CURR=4.5.1
NEXT=4.5.2-SNAPSHOT

Github Release

Perform a clean checkout of the code from Github and prepare the release.

git clone git@github.com:$ORG/$REPO.git
cd $REPO
git checkout -b ${CURR}-RC origin/${CURR}-RC # or the release branch if named differently
mvn release:clean

If release:clean fails, you may need to revert the RC commit with git revert HEAD.  If the parent snapshot is not available, build an old version of fcrepo4 to populate it locally.

Resolve dependencies and set main versions to $CURR and dev versions to $NEXT

mvn release:prepare -DreleaseVersion=$CURR -DdevelopmentVersion=$NEXT -DautoVersionSubmodules=true -DpushChanges=false

-Darguments=-Dgpg.keyname=<Your Key ID>

Inspect/Verify local updates:

git diff HEAD~1
git diff HEAD~2 HEAD~1

These diffs should only contain changes of version numbers (from ${CURR}-SNAPSHOT to $CURR or $CURR to $NEXT) or occasionally HEAD to the current tag name ($REPO-$CURR)

Remove your local copies of Fedora artifacts to be sure of a clean build, and build the release.

rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/org/fcrepo
git checkout $REPO-$CURR # detached head state
mvn clean install

Push the changes to Github.

git push origin --tags # mvn task relies on the tag, make sure it does not collide with a branch name

• Go to https://github.com/fcrepo4/$REPO/releases/tag/$REPO-$CURR

• Click Edit tag, and update title to "Release $CURR"
• If appropriate, attach binaries and checksums that have been published to Maven Central
  • e.g. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/fcrepo/fcrepo-webapp/4.5.1/
  • Note: The Maven artifact for fcrepo-webapp-<version>-jetty-console needs to be renamed from war to jar.
• Click Publish Release

Sonatype Release

Release the build artifacts to the Sonatype repository.

mvn release:perform -DperformRelease -Dgoals=deploy

-Darguments=-Dgpg.keyname=<Your Key ID>

• Go to https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html  and log in

• Click Staging Repositories in left navigation

• Search for "fcrepo" in upper right search box (project will not have $REPO in title)

• Select repository and verify that $REPO is present in the Content tab
• Click Close, then Refresh, then Release

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 http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/fcrepo.

Github Pages

Update the Github Pages documentation:

mvn site-deploy -DskipTests

The pages will be visible at http://$ORG.github.io/$REPO/site/$CURR/$REPO/

For fcrepo4/fcrepo4 and fcrepo4-exts/fcrepo-camel, manually add links to the current releases.  The easiest way to do this is to search for an old version number and copy/update for the current release.

Troubleshooting

Push Release Branch to Master

The release branch has changes made since code freeze. It also contains the update to the version numbers for future development.

git checkout ${CURR}-RC # this is your local copy of the release branch 
git log 

Ensure that your commit history matches the release branch's commit history, except for the two additional commits.

1. Changing from SNAPSHOT version to release version. Something like [maven-release-plugin] prepare release $REPO-$CURR
2. Changing from release version to next development version. Something like [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

If this appears correct, you can push your release branch on to master.

git push origin HEAD:master

Merge DEV branch into master

Process TBD

Complete the Duraspace wiki documentation updates

Current, in-progress Fedora Repository Documentation wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x

At the very minimum, update the following:

Documentation
Downloads
Release Notes

Note the version of Java against which the release was built.

If this is a new major or minor point release, copy the current, in-progress documentation to create the release wiki, then update accordingly. Mark the new pages as current, and update the pages in the previous documentation to indicate they are out-of-date.

• Add the following header to the previous major release wiki space (see: Space Admin -> Themes -> Configure Theme)

  {note:title=Old Release}
  This documentation covers an old version of Fedora. Looking for another version? [See all documentation|FF:Documentation].
  {note}

If this is a maintenance point release, create separate child release note pages for each release covered by the documentation.
Otherwise, post the release notes in the Release Notes page (see Fedora 4.0.0 Release Notes for an example).

Update any other documentation as needed, per changes/features added with this release.

Make sure the license and copyright information is up-to-date with this release.

Close the release in Jira, and create the next one

1. Go to the release management page.
2. For the release you just made (there should be an open package icon to the left of it)
   
   1. click the gear icon on the left and choose "release"
   2. enter the date you finished the release
   3. the package should be closed
   4. if you are not already listed as the release manager in the description, enter "Release Manager: your-name-here"
3. Create the next release
   1. enter a name (ie, Fedora 4.x.y) in the form at the top, and click Add.  If the release manager is known, enter that in the note.

Update the Fedora Repository site

Fedora Repository site (Drupal): http://www.fedorarepository.org/

• No need to perform this step until the website refactor has been performed.

Announce release

Let Carol Minton Morris know that the release is complete and can be announced.

CURR=4.5.1
ORG=fcrepo4
REPO=fcrepo-webac-ontology
git clone git@github.com:$ORG/$REPO
cd $REPO
git tag -a "$REPO-$CURR" -m "$REPO-$CURR" # except fcrepo4/ontology should be fcrepo-ontology-$CURR
git push --tags