Lukasz Lenart created WW-5680:
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Summary: Document the milestone / release-candidate release process
Key: WW-5680
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-5680
Project: Struts 2
Issue Type: Task
Components: Documentation
Reporter: Lukasz Lenart
The [release guidelines|https://struts.apache.org/release-guidelines.html]
document a General Availability release. They do not describe how a milestone
or release candidate differs, even though we make them - 7.0.0-M1 shipped, and
release branches are named {{release/X.Y.Z-RC1}}.
The old wiki page "Building Struts 2 - Fast track release"
([27834014|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27834014],
last revised 2014) half-covered this, tangled together with a security
fast-track procedure that is no longer followed. It has been replaced with a
stub; the original content remains in the page's history.
*Questions to settle*
* Version and tag naming for a milestone ({{7.0.0-M1}} vs
{{STRUTS\_7\_0\_0\_M1}}).
* Whether a milestone gets the full 72 hour vote, and what quality designation
it is voted to.
* Whether milestone artifacts are promoted to {{dist/release}} and mirrored, or
stay in {{dist/dev}}.
* Whether milestones get an {{[ANN]}} mail, and to which lists.
* Whether the Version Notes and site entries are created for milestones the
same way as for GA.
Once settled, add it to the release guidelines as a short section describing
the deltas from the GA process rather than as a duplicate runbook - the two
must not be able to drift apart.
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