RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md

Release checklist

• Update CHANGES.md, plugin-gradle/CHANGES.md, and plugin-maven/CHANGES.md
• Upgrade gradle.properties.
• Run ./gradlew spotlessApply
• Make sure all files are committed
• Run ./gradlew check
• Make sure all tests pass and no files are changes
• Run :

  ./gradlew generatePomFileForPluginMavenPublication
  ./gradlew publish publishPlugins
  ./gradlew gitPublishPush

• Test latest spotless on:
  • Gradle via Apache beam at v2.13.0: https://github.com/apache/beam
    • bump the spotless version in buildSrc/build.gradle
    • ./gradlew spotlessApply -PdisableSpotlessCheck=true
  • Maven via JUNG at bf7e5b9: https://github.com/jrtom/jung
    • bump the spotless version in pom.xml
    • mvn spotless:apply -U
    • might take a while for mavencentral to update, the -U flag above ensures that it tries again rather than caching a failure
• Tag the releases
• Bump gradle.properties to next snapshot, run spotlessApply, commit any changees
• Comment on all released PRs / issues