devel_notes.md

Developer Notes

How to do a release?

1. Make sure to increase version number in build.gradle.kts

2. Document updates in NEWS.md

3. Do the release on GitHub

4. Make sure the following Gradle properties are set

signing.keyId=
signing.password=
signing.secretKeyRingFile=/secring.gpg

5. Publish

gradle publish

5. Close and Release on sonatype
   1. Go to: Sonatype
   2. Click on the staging repository
   3. Click on Close
   4. After checks, you can release
   5. Click on Release

Generating a new signing key

1. Generate the key

gpg --gen-key
gpg --list-keys --keyid-format short

2. Then register the key on a keyserver

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --send-keys <keyId>

3. Then export it and move it to project base dir (.gitignore will ignore it)

gpg --export-secret-keys -o secring.gpg