Releasing Forge

Assume that:

REL = Version to be released (eg. 2.5.0.Final)

DEV = Next Version (eg. 2.5.1-SNAPSHOT)

Projects to be released

forge/core

The following repository contains the release scripts

(you must have ssh keys registered with your github account)

http://github.com/forge/scripts/

Maven steps

For each project, run:

mvn clean release:prepare -DdevelopmentVersion=DEV -Dtag=REL -DreleaseVersion=REL
mvn release:perform -Darguments=-DskipTests

Listing the contributors

Where LAST_TAG is the tag before the released tag:

git shortlog LAST_TAG..HEAD -n

Also available here: https://github.com/forge/core/graphs/contributors

Post-release procedures

Update the website metadata version

• Update the metadata version in https://github.com/forge/website-data/blob/master/metadata.yaml

Writing a release announcement blog post:

• Add a new entry in https://github.com/forge/website-data/blob/master/news.yaml

• Create a new entry in https://github.com/forge/docs/tree/master/news

Update subproducts

• Update JBoss Tools plugin: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-forge

• Update and release Intellij IDEA plugin: https://github.com/forge/intellij-idea-plugin/ - http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7515

• Update and release Netbeans plugin: https://github.com/forge/netbeans-plugin - http://plugins.netbeans.org/edit-binary/id/3921

  • Command: mvn clean release:prepare release:clean -Prelease -Darguments="-DskipTests -Dkeystore.path=<KEYSTORE_PATH> -Dkeystore.password=<PASSWORD>" -DreleaseVersion=<REL> -Dtag=<REL> -DdevelopmentVersion=<DEV>

• Update Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/jboss-forge.rb

• Update FORGE_VERSION in Docker: https://github.com/jboss-dockerfiles/forge/blob/master/Dockerfile

  • Tag the repo when you want to release new version and ping mgoldmann on IRC (#jboss-docker on Freenode) so he can kick a new build.

  • https://hub.docker.com/r/jboss/forge/