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Capra/PreparingForRelease
The general workflow for releases is as follows.
- Create a local branch for the release that contains all commits that should be part of the release.
- Create the release using the procedure outlined below.
- Build the release and publish it using CI.
Create the release
Eclipse Capra is using the unleash-maven plugin to prepare for releases. The plugin switches the version numbers to a release version for all pom.xml and metadata files (manifests, feature.xml, etc.), creates a tag for the release and then switches back to a development version. All changes are automatically committed to git.
The tool should be run locally as:
mvn unleash:perform-tycho -Dunleash.developmentVersion=0.7.0-SNAPSHOT -Dunleash.releaseVersion=0.7.0.RC_20190429
Make sure to have ssh-agent running if using git with public/private key. Otherwise, please see the unleash-maven documentation for details on how to provide credentials.
Build and publish the release
Later, the tag can be used in CI to create the build and publish it to the download area.