JRuby release preparation

• Make sure a release has no blockers (tests in later steps are good at shagging issues out)
• Preliminary testing
  • Try and determine if we break any common extensions (jruby-rack, ar-jdbc, joni, jsr233 impl, ...)
  • Create a test dist file
    • Verify bin works
    • Verify src with 'ant test' and 'ant spec'
    • Install a gem or two
• Create new branch [Only for RC1]
  • grb create jruby-1_5
• [branch] Update default.build.properties to reflect new version [1.5.0.RC1]
• [branch] Update maven poms: jruby -S rake maven:updatepoms VERSION={newversion}
• [master] Update default.build.properties to reflect next version [ -> 1.6.0.dev]
• [master] Update maven poms: jruby -S rake maven:updatepoms VERSION={newversion}
• Make tag using git tag: git tag X.Y'; git push --tags
• Check out clean clone of release branch: cd .. && rm -rf release && git clone jruby release && cd release (for example)
• Set your java version to Java 5 for building the release.
• If you use rvm then 'rvm use system' to prevent gem accident JRUBY-5231
• Run ant dist to generate source and binary distribution files, jruby-complete jar, installers, jruby-jars gem, and MD5/SHA checksum files.
• Make 'ant test' runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows with produced source distribution
• Verify common tasks as extra sanity check (Windows + one other system) [with binary distro -- try some with .zip dist and some with .tar.gz dist]:
  • jruby samples/swing2.rb
  • jruby -S jirb
  • install rails + ar-jdbc
    • setup simple web app and exercise it
    • install and run goldberg (actually any more sophisticated app you know works)
• Upload dist files, jruby-complete.jar, jruby-jars gem and MD5 files to S3: https://jruby.org.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/{version}
• Release jruby-jars gem: gem push dist/jruby-jars-{VERSION}.gem
• mvn deploy -DupdateReleaseInfo=true at the root of the project to build and deploy all maven artifacts
• Add news item to www.jruby.org page
• Update MainPage on JRuby wiki pointing to new binary
• Update Ruby Application Archive
• Close all resolved bugs associated with the release in JIRA
• Release the version in JIRA
• Send emails to dev@jruby.codehaus.org, user@jruby.codehaus.org, ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (plus any thing else you may find useful -- internal lists, etc...)
• Update wikipedia entry
• Send out to all known packagers JRubyDistributions