How to create a release

1. Build of the branch from which release is planned shall be clean and all tests shall be passed OK (because release itself skips tests)

2. Job for staging release is: https://jenkins.eclipse.org/yasson/job/yasson-release-oss

it has parameters: RELEASE_VERSION, NEXT_VERSION, BRANCH, OVERWRITE and DRY_RUN

to run staging job correctly it's enough to fill BRANCH parameter with required github branch (default master) and run the job. DRY_RUN shall not be checked, OVERWRITE may by checked if the expected version already was staged. Or just for precaution. RELEASE_ and NEXT_ version may be filled but if pom.xml in source branch is correct all versions will be taken/generated from pom.xml After job is done released artifact gets visible in sonatype staging at https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging/org/eclipse/yasson/

Since it is visible it is possibly to work with published artifact (like build dependent projects, check by TCK ect)

3. After it is proved that staged artifact is correct it is possible to release it to central. Release is been done using several helper jobs:
   • https://jenkins.eclipse.org/yasson/job/list-staging/ which will give you list of available repositories related to yasson. Like orgeclipseyasson-1009. Repository has description so it is visible by description which version is inside. And it shall be in CLOSED state.
   • After required repository id is identified it is possible to run https://jenkins.eclipse.org/yasson/job/oss-release which shall be configured before run and appropriate repository id shall be set in order to perform proper release to central.