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Overview

The release process for SNAPSHOT versions is handled by the after_success.sh script, triggered after Travis CI successfully completes a non-PR build. A new SNAPSHOT artifact will be released to the snapshot repository as part of this script.

To push a release version

  1. Make sure the team agrees that it is time to release. Verify that all unit and integration tests for the last commit have passed.

  2. Run utilities/update_pom_version.sh from the repository's base directory. This script takes an optional argument denoting the new version. By default, if the current version is X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT, the script will update the version in all the pom.xml files to X.Y.Z. If desired, another version can be supplied via command line argument instead. Commit this version locally:

git commit -m "Release [VERSION HERE]"

  1. Run utilities/stage_release.sh. This script builds and stages the release artifact on the Maven Central Repository, updates the README.md files with the release version + commits them locally, and finally generates a new site version for the gh-pages branch under a temporary directory named tmp_gh-pages. If you haven't run the release process before, it's worth verifying everything; check the staged release on the Sonatype website, and verify that the local commits have the right version updates.

  2. Run utilities/finalize_release.sh. This script will release the staged artifact on the Maven Central Repository and push the README.md and gh-pages updates to github.

  3. Publish a release on Github manually. Go to the releases page and open the appropriate release draft. Make sure the "Tag Version" is vX.Y.Z and the "Release Title" is X.Y.Z, where X.Y.Z is the release version as listed in the pom.xml files. The draft should already have all changes that impact users since the previous release. To double check this, you can use the git log command and look through the merged master branch pull requests. Here is an example of the log command to get non-merge commits between v0.0.12 and v0.1.0:

git --no-pager log v0.0.12..v0.1.0 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --no-merges

Ensure that the format is consistent with previous releases (for an example, see the 0.1.0 release). After adding any missing updates and reformatting as necessary, publish the draft. Finally, create a new draft for the next release.

  1. Run utilities/update_pom_version.sh again (to include "-SNAPSHOT" in the project version). As mentioned before, there is an optional version argument. By default, the script will update the version from "X.Y.Z" to "X.Y.Z+1-SNAPSHOT". Suppose a different version is desired, for example X+1.0.0-SNAPSHOT. Then the appropriate command to run would be utilities/update_pom_version.sh X+1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.

  2. Create and merge in another PR to reflect the updated project version. For an example of what this PR should look like, see #227.

  3. Be sure to update Google Cloud Platform docs, java-docs-samples code/docs, and getting-started-java code/docs. See directions here.

To push a snapshot version

Pushing a snapshot is completely automated. If "-SNAPSHOT" is included in the version denoted by the base directory's pom.xml, then an updated artifact will be pushed to the snapshot repository when Travis CI successfully completes a non-PR build.

Improvements

Automatic tagging is not currently implemented, though it was discussed in #119. If the version updates continue to be manual, a one-line git tag command can be added to after_success.sh to correctly tag releases. However, automatically creating useful annotations for this tag will be difficult. Also, if the release process becomes fully automated, tagging becomes a harder problem, as mentioned in that issue.