Motivation:
When changing the netty-all artifact to not include any sources we also removed the ability to generate the javadocs / xref files for our website
Modifications:
- Add new profile which will generate the files
- Add script which generates all the files and copy these over to the netty-website
Result:
Easier to generate files for website
Motivation:
After the release was done we need to also copy the apidocs and xref to the netty-website
Modifications:
Add script that does the copy etc
Result:
Less manual steps to remember
Motivation:
We also need to compile the modules we depend on when finish up the release otherwise it may fail.
Modifications:
Add "-am" to the mvn args
Result:
Correctly also compile the modules we depend on
Motivation:
We should use a higher timeout as sometimes the verification process in oss.sonatype.org is very slow.
Modifications:
Bump up timeout to 10 minutes
Result:
Less likely to see timeouts
Motivation:
When finish the release process we need to give the id of the staged release. Let's add a script for that
Modifications:
Add script which allows to show all staged releases
Result:
No need to login into sonatype anymore
Motivation:
We can just close and release the staging repository at the end and so remove the extra manual steps
Modification:
Execute extra goals for close and release
Result:
Less manual actions needed for release
Motivation:
We should fail the script if the tag already exists locally to ensure we really deploy the right code
Modifications:
Check if the tag already exists and if so print an error and exit
Result:
No risks to deploy wrong code as part of the release
Motivation:
Doing releases manually is error-prone, it would be better if we could do it via a workflow
Modification:
- Add workflow to cut releases
- Add related scripts
Result:
Be able to easily cut a release via a workflow
