The purpose of this page is describing module release practical procedures. Mainly these steps are based on general "Release Procedure" but contains some of refinements found in the process of recent release procedures.
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8.1) go to module's Code page click on the Releases link and pickup Releases tab;
8.2) click on the "Draft a new release" button and fill fields with data:
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14) Annonce in Slack about a new release in the #release thread (example of message):
`edge-oai-pmh 2.2.1` has been released https://github.com/folio-org/edge-oai-pmh/releases/tag/v2.2.1
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2) Create a reease branch from there, for example: MODINVSTOR-524/release-19.2.3 (<release_ticket>/<release_branch_name>.
3) Cherry pick into prevoiusly created release branch all needed commits from mainstream development branch, i.e. master. Make any extra fixes, if any changes needed, and commit them into previously created release branch*.
git cherry-pick <commit_hash>
*Don't forget to back porting extra fixes into mainstream development branch, i.e. master, if these changes valuable not only for particular bugfix release.
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7) mvn --batch-mode -DautoVersionSubmodules=true release:clean release:prepare (runs maven release buld process. Here release number and rest of data set up automatically without any dialogs, based on version's set from previous step);
8) git push origin MODINVSTOR-524/release-19.2.3 && git push --tags origin MODINVSTOR-524/release-19.2.3 (pushing local changes, release notes in this case, with tags to remote stash. These changes are pushed to remote "long-live" branch b19.2)
9) Go to the module's repository on GitHub and create a new "Pull request" of pushed relaese branch (MODINVSTOR-524/release-19.2.3) into the "long-live release branch - b19.2 in or case,
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10.1) go to module's Code page click on the Releases link and pickup Releases tab;
10.2) click on the "Draft a new release" button and fill fields with data:
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`mod-inventory-storage 19.2.3` has been released https://github.com/folio-org/mod-inventory-storage/releases/tag/v19.2.3