I agree, there isn't anything wrong imo with a merge commit.  How is this done 
for other projects?

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> On Oct 5, 2017, at 2:55 PM, David Lotts <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What is wrong with having a merge commit?  I believe that will bring in the
> modified pom.xml files that change to the next snapshot version:
> 3.2.12-SNAPSHOT .  These changes do not need to be chronologically correct.
> 
> Here is the quote from our awesome wiki instructions, the bold section is
> what we are discussing:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RYA/How+To+Release+Rya
> 
> ----
> 
> After the release has been approved by IPMC
> 
>    Release the Jars
>        Go to https://repository.apache.org/ and release the staging
> repository
>    Copy dev artifacts to release
>    Create a rel/ tag in Git
> 
>        git checkout rya-incubating-3.2.10-rc3
> 
>        git tag -a rel/rya-incubating-3.2.10 -m "rya-incubating-3.2.10
> Release"
> 
>        git push origin rel/rya-incubating-3.2.10
>    Merge Release branch into Master and Delete Release Branch
> <b>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *        git checkout master        git merge 3.2.10-RC3        git push
> origin --delete 3.2.10-RC3*
> 
> *</b>*
>    Update the website
>    Send out an announce email
> ----
> 
> david.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Aaron D. Mihalik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Those 10 commit are already in master.
>> 
>> If we cherry pick the 2 release commits onto master, then that is wrong.
>> Then it looks like the release contains those 10 new commits.
>> 
>> If we do a merge, then we'll have the two release commits in the right
>> spot, then the 10 commits, then a "merge commit".
>> 
>> --Aaron
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 5:34 AM Smith, Andrew <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to avoid a force.  Could we cherry-pick those 10 commits over to
>>> master?
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Aaron D. Mihalik [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 1:17 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Merging Release back into Master?
>>> 
>>> Hey devs,
>>> 
>>> How are we going to handle merging the release back into master?  master
>>> has moved ahead since David marked the release and now the release branch
>>> is "2 commits ahead, 10 commits behind master." [1]
>>> 
>>> I propose pulling the 10 commits added to master on top of the release
>>> branch and then doing a force push of that onto master.  what do you all
>>> think?
>>> 
>>> --Aaron
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.
>> com_apache_incubator-2Drya_tree_3.2.11-2DRC3&d=DwIBaQ&c=
>> Nwf-pp4xtYRe0sCRVM8_LWH54joYF7EKmrYIdfxIq10&r=U_RyVeYU_
>> SBiw95AO0whBC3KHS5T7hkPx7rmMyjITF8&m=jWxjJgDMdB609alFiB_
>> tKpRXzhLKdCmeM1o5d2GtOCI&s=XudaZE5HhUvHFqSzPwlwopkmViRx73iFyQ2iP_gOtxE&e=
>>> 
>> 

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