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The Policy Framework release process is complex, time-consuming, and tedious. In the release process, the maven repositories and docker images must be released in the order shown in the diagram above: Blue-->Green-->Pink-->Yellow→Purple. In addition, the references for the repository layering and the parent Docker image file references must be set to release references before staging and back to snapshot references after staging.

Release Scripts

A set of scripts have been developed to make the release process somewhat less tedious. The scripts are located in the policy/parent repo here.

The scripts:

• Operate on a cloned copy of all 13 Policy Framework repositories
• Breaks the release process into a set of phases, which are executed one after another to perform a release
• Can release on the Master branch or any other branch
• Act on the POM files, Docker files, the maven and docker release files, the version.properties files, and the pf_release_data.csv file in the repos, updating the references in those files as required for each phase

The scripts do NOT:

• Fully automate the release process, manual checking and submission of commits is still required
• Capture every possible permutation and corner case of releasing, manual intervention in the process is often required

Kohn (Master)

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