The release process consists of these steps:
- Create a pull request with:
- Add an entry to
CHANGELOG
with changes since the last release- Tip:
git log --pretty=format:'- %s -- %an'
- Tip:
- add a new section to the CHANGELOG with that version as
(unreleased)
and a bullet point- Nothing yet
- Add an entry to
- Commit your
CHANGELOG
changes asgit commit -sm "Preparing release 0.20.0"
- Create and push tag with the new version
git tag release-0.20.0 && git push origin release-0.20.0
. Do not update the version ingradle.properties
manually. - The build for the
release-
tag does following:- It updates the version in
gradle.properties
and creates commit and tagv0.20.0
- It updates version to the next
SNAPSHOT
and commits it - The next build for the tag publishes artifact to Nexus. If the build fails it might be necessary to drop staging repositories and restart the build or just close the repository.
- It updates the version in
- Create a release on GitHub for the new tag
v0.20.0
. Use the changes from theCHANGELOG
as the description.- Go to https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-client-java/tags, and click on
[...]
on the right next to the new tag.
- Go to https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-client-java/tags, and click on
Maintenance branches should follow naming convention: release-major.minor
(e.g.release-0.20
).
The Travis build execute the uploadArchives
task, and this task performs the signing of the artifacts.
While the Travis build is ready for that, releasing locally requires the following steps:
- install GPG:
brew install gpg
- generate keys:
gpg --gen-key
- see installed keys with
gpg --list-keys
orgpg --list-secret-keys
- create an account with Sonatype, get repo permissions (e.g. https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-23572)
- export the secret key ring file with
gpg --export -o $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg
orgpg --export-secret-keys -o $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg
- create
$HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties
file or add parameters directly as it is shown at the last step.
signing.keyId={8 hex digit key ID from: gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format short}
signing.password={password you used to encrypt keys via: gpg --gen-key}
signing.secretKeyRingFile={e.g. $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg}
ossrhUsername={your user name at Sonatype}
ossrhPassword={your password at Sonatype}
- upload your public key to Ubuntu servers, e.g.
gpg --keyserver http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --send-keys {pub key ID}
- you can also use Web UI and upload plain test key that you can obtain via
gpg --armor --export {your email used for the keys}
- Publish the release to Nexus.
./gradlew publish
- Note that if this fails with error
Execution failed for task ':closeRepository'.
, it might be necessary to close and release via Nexus UI: Closing Staging Repository Manually
- https://oss.sonatype.org/, log in, go to Staging Repositories
- In the top-right corner search box type
uber
, and find your uploaded repository - Hit Close button. Monitor status on Activity tab at the bottom, hitting Refresh.
- Once Close is successful, the Release button will become available, so hit it
- Keep hitting Refresh while sync to Maven is in progress. Once it's complete, the repository will disappear.
If manually closing the Staging Repository fails, try cleaning up the existing open Staging Repositories as advised in this gradle-nexus-staging-plugin github discussion thread.
- https://oss.sonatype.org/, log in, go to Staging Repositories. You should see a list of jaeger staging deployments with Status "open".
- Select all staging deployments.
- Hit "Drop" button. Monitor the delete status by hitting Refresh until all Staging Repositories are deleted.
- Try running
./gradlew publish
again.