This page documents the procedure to make an Apache DistributedLog release. Credit to the Beam project. We've borrow liberally from their documentation.
The Apache DistributedLog project periodically declares and publishes releases. A release is one or more packages of the project artifact(s) that are approved for general public distribution and use. They may come with various degrees of caveat regarding their perceived quality and potential for change, such as “alpha”, “beta”, “incubating”, “stable”, etc.
The DistributedLog community treats releases with great importance. They are a public face of the project and most users interact with the project only through the releases. Releases are signed off by the entire DistributedLog community in a public vote.
Each release is executed by a Release Manager, who is selected among the [DistributedLog committers]({{ site.baseurl }}/community/team). This document describes the process that the Release Manager follows to perform a release. Any changes to this process should be discussed and adopted on the [dev@ mailing list]({{ site.baseurl }}/community/#mailing-lists).
Please remember that publishing software has legal consequences. This guide complements the foundation-wide Product Release Policy and Release Distribution Policy.
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The release process consists of several steps:
Deciding to release and selecting a Release Manager is the first step of the release process. This is a consensus-based decision of the entire community.
Anybody can propose a release on the dev@ mailing list, giving a solid argument and nominating a committer as the Release Manager (including themselves). There’s no formal process, no vote requirements, and no timing requirements. Any objections should be resolved by consensus before starting the release.
In general, the community prefers to have a rotating set of 3-5 Release Managers. Keeping a small core set of managers allows enough people to build expertise in this area and improve processes over time, without Release Managers needing to re-learn the processes for each release. That said, if you are a committer interested in serving the community in this way, please reach out to the community on the dev@ mailing list.
Before your first release, you should perform one-time configuration steps. This will set up your security keys for signing the release and access to various release repositories.
To prepare for each release, you should audit the project status in the JIRA issue tracker, and do necessary bookkeeping. Finally, you should create a release branch from which individual release candidates will be built.
You need to have a GPG key to sign the release artifacts. Please be aware of the ASF-wide release signing guidelines. If you don’t have a GPG key associated with your Apache account, please create one according to the guidelines.
Determine your Apache GPG Key and Key ID, as follows:
gpg --list-keys
This will list your GPG keys. One of these should reflect your Apache account, for example:
-------------------------------------------------- pub 2048R/845E6689 2016-02-23 uid Nomen Nescio <anonymous@apache.org> sub 2048R/BA4D50BE 2016-02-23
Here, the key ID is the 8-digit hex string in the pub line: 845E6689.
Now, add your Apache GPG key to the DistributedLog’s KEYS file both in dev and release repositories at dist.apache.org. Follow the instructions listed at the top of these files.
Configure git to use this key when signing code by giving it your key ID, as follows:
git config --global user.signingkey 845E6689
You may drop the --global option if you’d prefer to use this key for the current repository only.
You may wish to start gpg-agent to unlock your GPG key only once using your passphrase. Otherwise, you may need to enter this passphrase hundreds of times. The setup for gpg-agent varies based on operating system, but may be something like this:
eval $(gpg-agent --daemon --no-grab --write-env-file $HOME/.gpg-agent-info) export GPG_TTY=$(tty) export GPG_AGENT_INFO
Configure access to the Apache Nexus repository, which enables final deployment of releases to the Maven Central Repository.
You log in with your Apache account.
Confirm you have appropriate access by finding org.apache.distributedlog under Staging Profiles.
Navigate to your Profile (top right dropdown menu of the page).
Choose User Token from the dropdown, then click Access User Token. Copy a snippet of the Maven XML configuration block.
Insert this snippet twice into your global Maven settings.xml file, typically ${HOME}/.m2/settings.xml. The end result should look like this, where TOKEN_NAME and TOKEN_PASSWORD are your secret tokens:
<settings>
<servers>
<server>
<id>apache.releases.https</id>
<username>TOKEN_NAME</username>
<password>TOKEN_PASSWORD</password>
</server>
<server>
<id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
<username>TOKEN_NAME</username>
<password>TOKEN_PASSWORD</password>
</server>
</servers>
</settings>
Get ready for updating the DistributedLog website by following the [website development instructions]({{ site.baseurl }}/contribute/contribution-guide/#website).
When contributors resolve an issue in JIRA, they are tagging it with a release that will contain their changes. With the release currently underway, new issues should be resolved against a subsequent future release. Therefore, you should create a release item for this subsequent release, as follows:
DistributedLog > Administration > Versions.Start Date, and choose Add.There could be outstanding release-blocking issues, which should be triaged before proceeding to build a release candidate. We track them by assigning a specific Fix version field even before the issue resolved.
The list of release-blocking issues is available at the version status page. Triage each unresolved issue with one of the following resolutions:
Fix Version field to the new version you just created. Please consider discussing this with stakeholders and the dev@ mailing list, as appropriate.JIRA automatically generates Release Notes based on the Fix Version field applied to issues. Release Notes are intended for DistributedLog users (not DistributedLog committers/contributors). You should ensure that Release Notes are informative and useful.
Open the release notes from the version status page by choosing the release underway and clicking Release Notes.
You should verify that the issues listed automatically by JIRA are appropriate to appear in the Release Notes. Specifically, issues should:
Bug, New Feature, Improvement, etc.Adjust any of the above properties to the improve clarity and presentation of the Release Notes.
Release candidates are built from a release branch. As a final step in preparation for the release, you should create the release branch, push it to the code repository, and update version information on the original branch.
Check out the version of the codebase from which you start the release. For a new minor or major release, this may be HEAD of the master branch. To build a hotfix/incremental release, instead of the master branch, use the release tag of the release being patched. (Please make sure your cloned repository is up-to-date before starting.)
git checkout <master branch OR release tag>
Set up a few environment variables to simplify Maven commands that follow. (We use bash Unix syntax in this guide.)
VERSION="0.4.0-incubating"
NEXT_VERSION="0.5.0"
BRANCH_NAME="release-${VERSION}"
DEVELOPMENT_VERSION="${NEXT_VERSION}-SNAPSHOT"
Version represents the release currently underway, while next version specifies the anticipated next version to be released from that branch. Normally, 0.4.0 is followed by 0.5.0, while 0.4.0 is followed by 0.4.1.
Use Maven release plugin to create the release branch and update the current branch to use the new development version. This command applies for the new major or minor version. (Warning: this command automatically pushes changes to the code repository.)
mvn release:branch \
-DbranchName=${BRANCH_NAME} \
-DdevelopmentVersion=${DEVELOPMENT_VERSION}
However, if you are doing an incremental/hotfix release, please run the following command after checking out the release tag of the release being patched.
mvn release:branch \
-DbranchName=${BRANCH_NAME} \
-DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false \
-DupdateBranchVersions=true \
-DreleaseVersion="${VERSION}-SNAPSHOT"
Check out the release branch.
git checkout ${BRANCH_NAME}
The rest of this guide assumes that commands are run in the root of a repository on ${BRANCH_NAME} with the above environment variables set.
dist.apache.orggit configurationorg.apache.distributedlog listed under Staging Profiles in Nexussettings.xmlThe core of the release process is the build-vote-fix cycle. Each cycle produces one release candidate. The Release Manager repeats this cycle until the community approves one release candidate, which is then finalized.
Set up a few environment variables to simplify Maven commands that follow. This identifies the release candidate being built. Start with RC_NUM equal to 1 and increment it for each candidate.
RC_NUM="1"
TAG="v${VERSION}-RC${RC_NUM}"
Use Maven release plugin to build the release artifacts, as follows:
mvn release:prepare \
-Dresume=false \
-DreleaseVersion=${VERSION} \
-Dtag=${TAG} \
-DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false
Use Maven release plugin to stage these artifacts on the Apache Nexus repository, as follows:
mvn release:perform
Review all staged artifacts. They should contain all relevant parts for each module, including pom.xml, jar, test jar, source, test source, javadoc, etc. Artifact names should follow the existing format in which artifact name mirrors directory structure, e.g., distributedlog-core. Carefully review any new artifacts.
Close the staging repository on Apache Nexus. When prompted for a description, enter “Apache DistributedLog, version X, release candidate Y”.
Copy the source release to the dev repository of dist.apache.org.
If you have not already, check out the DistributedLog section of the dev repository on dist.apache.org via Subversion. In a fresh directory:
svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/bookkeeper/distributedlog
Make a directory for the new release:
mkdir distributedlog/${VERSION}
Copy and rename the DistributedLog source distribution, hashes, and GPG signature:
cp ${DL_ROOT}/target/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz
cp ${DL_ROOT}/target/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.asc distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.asc
cp ${DL_ROOT}/target/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.md5 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.md5
cp ${DL_ROOT}/target/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.sha1 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-${VERSION}-src.tar.gz.sha1
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-benchmark/target/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-benchmark/target/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.asc distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.asc
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-benchmark/target/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.md5 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.md5
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-benchmark/target/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.sha1 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-benchmark-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.sha1
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-service/target/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-service/target/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.asc distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.asc
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-service/target/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.md5 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.md5
cp ${DL_ROOT}/distributedlog-service/target/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.sha1 distributedlog/${VERSION}/distributedlog-service-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz.sha1
Add and commit all the files.
svn add distributedlog/${VERSION}
svn commit
Verify that files are present.
DistributedLog publishes API reference manual for each release on the website. For Java SDK, that’s Javadoc.
Check out release candidate, as follows:
git checkout ${TAG}
Use Maven Javadoc plugin to generate the new Java reference manual, as follows:
mvn -DskipTests clean package javadoc:aggregate \
-Ddoctitle="Apache DistributedLog Library for Java, version ${VERSION}" \
-Dwindowtitle="Apache DistributedLog Library for Java, version ${VERSION}" \
-Dmaven.javadoc.failOnError=false
By default, the Javadoc will be generated in target/site/apidocs/. Let ${JAVADOC_ROOT} be the absolute path to apidocs. (Pull request #1015 will hopefully simplify this process.)
Please carefully review the generated Javadoc. Check for completeness and presence of all relevant packages and package-info.java; consider adding less relevant packages to the excludePackageNames configuration. The index page is generated at ${JAVADOC_ROOT}/index.html.
Checkout the asf-site branch, as follows:
git checkout asf-site
Copy the generated javadoc files to the asf site, as follows:
mkdir -p content/docs/${VERSION}/api/java
cp -r target/site/apidocs/* content/docs/${VERSION}/api/java/
The final step of building the candidate is to propose a website pull request.
Follow the example pull request to make the modifications.
Finally, propose a pull request with these changes. (Don’t merge before finalizing the release.)
Once you have built and individually reviewed the release candidate, please share it for the community-wide review. Please review foundation-wide voting guidelines for more information.
Start the review-and-vote thread on the dev@ mailing list. Here’s an email template; please adjust as you see fit.
From: Release Manager To: distributedlog-dev@bookkeeper.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Release 0.4.0, release candidate #0 Hi everyone, Please review and vote on the release candidate #0 for the version 0.4.0, as follows: [ ] +1, Approve the release [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments) The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes: * JIRA release notes [1], * the official Apache source release to be deployed to dist.apache.org [2], * all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [3], * source code tag "v0.4.0-RC0" [4], * website pull request listing the release and publishing the API reference manual [5]. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority approval, with at least 3 PPMC affirmative votes. Thanks, Release Manager [1] link [2] link [3] link [4] link [5] link
If there are any issues found in the release candidate, reply on the vote thread to cancel the vote. There’s no need to wait 72 hours. Proceed to the Fix Issues step below and address the problem. However, some issues don’t require cancellation. For example, if an issue is found in the website pull request, just correct it on the spot and the vote can continue as-is.
If there are no issues, reply on the vote thread to close the voting. Then, tally the votes in a separate email. Here’s an email template; please adjust as you see fit.
From: Release Manager To: distributedlog-dev@bookkeeper.apache.org Subject: [RESULT] [VOTE] Release 0.4.0, release candidate #0 I'm happy to announce that we have unanimously approved this release. There are XXX approving votes, XXX of which are binding: * approver 1 * approver 2 * approver 3 * approver 4 There are no disapproving votes. Thanks everyone!
Any issues identified during the community review and vote should be fixed in this step.
Code changes should be proposed as standard pull requests to the master branch and reviewed using the normal contributing process. Then, relevant changes should be cherry-picked into the release branch. The cherry-pick commits should then be proposed as the pull requests against the release branch, again reviewed and merged using the normal contributing process.
Once all issues have been resolved, you should go back and build a new release candidate with these changes.
Once the release candidate has been reviewed and approved by the community, the release should be finalized. This involves the final deployment of the release candidate to the release repositories, merging of the website changes, etc.
Use the Apache Nexus repository to release the staged binary artifacts to the Maven Central repository. In the Staging Repositories section, find the relevant release candidate orgapachedistributedlog-XXX entry and click Release. Drop all other release candidates that are not being released.
Copy the source release from the dev repository to the release repository at dist.apache.org using Subversion.
Create a new Git tag for the released version by copying the tag for the final release candidate, as follows:
git tag -s “v${VERSION}” ${TAG}
Merge the website pull request to [list the release]({{ site.baseurl }}/use/releases/) and publish the [API reference manual]({{ site.baseurl }}/learn/sdks/javadoc/) created earlier.
In JIRA, inside version management, hover over the current release and a settings menu will appear. Click Release, and select today’s date.
Once the release has been finalized, the last step of the process is to promote the release within the project and beyond.
Announce on the dev@ mailing list that the release has been finished.
Announce on the release on the user@ mailing list, listing major improvements and contributions.
Use reporter.apache.org to promote the release.
Major or otherwise important releases should have a blog post. Write one if needed for this particular release. Minor releases that don’t introduce new major functionality don’t necessarily need to be blogged.
Tweet, post on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Ask other contributors to do the same.
It is important that we improve the release processes over time. Once you’ve finished the release, please take a step back and look what areas of this process and be improved. Perhaps some part of the process can be simplified. Perhaps parts of this guide can be clarified.
If we have specific ideas, please start a discussion on the dev@ mailing list and/or propose a pull request to update this guide. Thanks!