Imeji release process

This page describes how to release imeji.

Release sub-modules

The first step is needed when releasing imeji sub-modules (a.k.a maven dependencies). If no submoludes are to be released, you can jump to the next step:

• The common presentation
• The fledgeddata service

The release process is the same for both:

• Checkout the code in a new directory
• Prepare the release

mvn release:prepare -DpreparationGoals="clean install" -DupdateReleaseInfo=true

• if the build was successfull

mvn release:perform

• In case of error:

mvn release:rollback

• Important: check that the parent has been increased to a new SNAPSHOT

Release imeji

To release imeji, Git is necessary. For Windows, we use the Windows PowerShell (available via Github client). The steps are:

• Switch to the release branch. This branch should have been created by the repository manager.

git checkout release_branch
git pull

• Optional (if releasing sub-modules, see above) Change the sub-modules dependencies with the release version created during their release and commit:

git add pom.xml
git add ./imeji_ear/pom.xml
git add ./imeji_presentation/pom.xml
git commit -m 'Submodules version changed to last release number'
git push

• Prepare the release (note the syntax...)

mvn release:prepare -DpreparationGoals="clean install` -DupdateReleaseInfo=true

• If needed do a rollback

mvn release:rollback
git tag -d tag-name //comment: rollback doesn't remove the tag, that must be removed before doing a new release:prepare

• Perform the release (the site deployment is not supported so far. Therefore we skip it here)

mvn release:perform -Dgoals=deploy

• Merge the commit to master and develop branch:

git checkout master
git merge release_branch
git push
git checkout develop
git merge release_branch
git push

• Remove release branch

git branch -d release_branch
git push origin :release_branch

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