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Release Instructions

This is a guide for Couchbase employees. It describes how to cut a release of this project and publish it to the Maven Central Repository.

Prerequisites

You will need:

  • JDK 9 or later.
  • The gpg command-line program and a PGP key. Mac users, grab gpg from https://gpgtools.org and enjoy this setup guide. Generate a PGP key with your couchbase.com email address and uploaded it to a public keyserver. For bonus points, have a few co-workers sign your key.
  • To tell git about your signing key: git config --global user.signingkey DEADBEEF (replace DEADBEEF with the id of your PGP key).
  • A Sonatype account authorized to publish to the com.couchbase namespace.
  • A ~/.m2/settings.xml file with a User Token. To generate a token, go to https://oss.sonatype.org and log in with your Sonatype account. Click on your username (upper right) and select "Profile". From the drop-down menu, select "User Token". Press "Access User Token" to see a snippet of XML with server credentials. Copy and paste this XML into the servers section of your Maven settings, replacing ${server} with ossrh.

At a minimum, your ~/.m2/settings.xml should look something like:

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>ossrh</id>
      <username>xxxxxxxx</username>
      <password>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

All set? In that case...

Let's do this!

Start by running mvn clean verify -Psnapshot to make sure the project builds successfully, artifact signing works, and the unit tests pass. When you're satisfied with the test results, it's time to...

Bump the project version number

  1. Edit pom.xml and remove the -SNAPSHOT suffix from the version string.
  2. Edit Info.java so the version there matches the pom.
  3. Commit these changes, with message "Prepare x.y.z release" (where x.y.z is the version you're releasing).

Tag the release

Run the command git tag -s x.y.z (where x.y.z is the release version number).

Use the previous version's tag message (e.g. git show 0.11.0) as a template for the new version's tag message.

Don't push the tag right away, though. Wait until the release is successful and you're sure there will be no more changes. Otherwise it can be a pain to remove an unwanted tag from Gerrit.

Go! Go! Go!

Here it is, the moment of truth. When you're ready to deploy to the Maven Central Repository:

mvn clean deploy -Prelease

Alternatively, if you prefer to inspect the staging repository and complete the release manually, set this additional property:

mvn clean deploy -Prelease -DautoReleaseAfterClose=false

Whew, you did it! Or the build failed and you're looking at a cryptic error message, in which case you might want to check out the Troubleshooting section below.

If the release succeeded, now's the time to publish the tag:

git push origin x.y.z

Prepare for next dev cycle

Increment the version number in pom.xml and restore the -SNAPSHOT suffix. Update the version in Info.java to match. Commit and push to Gerrit. Breathe in. Breathe out.

Publishing a snapshot

After every passing nightly build, a snapshot should be published to the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository by running this command:

mvn clean deploy -Psnapshot

Troubleshooting

  • Take another look at the Prerequisites section. Did you miss anything?
  • This gist has some tips for making git and gpg play nice together.
  • If deployment fails because the artifacts are missing PGP signatures, make sure your Maven command line includes -Prelease (or -Pstage) when running mvn deploy. Note that this is a profile so it's specified with -P.