[Biojava-dev] release process

[Michael Heuer]

As far as I know we've never had a formal release process, given that
cutting a release was so complicated very few people were willing to go
through it and as such releases didn't happen very often.

A few version 5 alpha releases were pushed to Maven Central without much
public discussion.  That's not too big of a deal, but perhaps we should
codify a release process in a document before things get carried away.  It
might address

 - when to cut a release
 - how to test for binary compliance
 - confirm we're following semantic versioning correctly
 - branching policy
 - voting on release candidates
 - code signing keys/web of trust
 - hosting javadoc, cookbook docs
 - wiki updates

   michael
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