HowToRelease

This page documents how to build and release Flume

1. Verify that there are no blockers on the FLUME JIRA for this release, reassign any non-blockers to another version
2. Create a new branch for the release
3. Ensure that the version number in build.xml, releasenotes, user guide (docs), etc are correct
4. Update the changelog to include the “release notes” from JIRA
5. Build – ant -Dversion=X.Y.Z tar
6. Smoke test the resulting archive ( Flume Release Test Plan )
7. Publish the release candidate by uploading tested tar to github ( https://github.com/cloudera/flume/downloads )
8. Announce the release candidate on the flume-dev list
9. After feedback from list either cut a new rc or publish the rc as “official”