Release Akka Persistence JDBC 4.0.0-RC2

[Enno Runne]

~ 1 week before the release

• Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
• Create a new milestone for the next version
• Check closed issues without a milestone and either assign them the 'upcoming' release milestone or invalid/not release-bound
• Close the 4.0.0-RC2 milestone

1 day before the release

• Make sure all important / big PRs have been merged by now
• Communicate that a new version is about to be released in Gitter Akka Dev Channel

Preparing release notes in the documentation / announcement

• For non-patch releases: rename the 'akka-persistence-jdbc-x.x-stable' reporting projects in WhiteSource accordingly
• Review the draft release notes
• For non-patch releases: Create a news item draft PR on akka.github.com, using the milestone

Cutting the release

• Wait until master build finished after merging the latest PR
• Update the draft release with the next tag version v4.0.0-RC2, title and release description linking to announcement and milestone
• Check that Travis CI release build has executed successfully (Travis will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to Bintray and documentation to Gustav)
• Go to Bintray and select the just released version
• Go to the Maven Central tab, check the Close and release repository when done checkbox and sync with Sonatype (using your Sonatype TOKEN key and password)

Check availability

• Check API documentation
• Check reference documentation
• Check the release on Maven central

When everything is on maven central

• Log into gustav.akka.io as akkarepo
  • If this updates the current version, run ./update-akka-persistence-jdbc.sh 4.0.0-RC2
  • otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git status
    git add docs/akka-persistence-jdbc/current docs/akka-persistence-jdbc/4.0.0-RC2
    git add api/akka-persistence-jdbc/current api/akka-persistence-jdbc/4.0.0-RC2
    git commit -m "Akka Persistence JDBC 4.0.0-RC2"
    

Announcements

• For non-patch releases: Merge draft news item for akka.io
• Send a release notification to Lightbend discuss
• Tweet using the @akkateam account (or ask someone to) about the new release
• Announce on Gitter akka/akka
• Announce internally (with links to Tweet, blog, discuss)

Afterwards

• Update version for Lightbend Supported Modules in private project
• Close this issue