cucumber-ruby/RELEASING.md

• Release process for cucumber-ruby
• • Prerequisites
  • cucumber-ruby-core
  • Releasing cucumber-ruby

Release process for cucumber-ruby

Prerequisites

To release cucumber-ruby, you'll need:

• to be a member of the core-team
• make
• docker

cucumber-ruby-core

If internal libraries such as cucumber-gherkin needs to be updated, you'll
need to update and release cucumber-ruby-core before releasing cucumber-ruby.

Releasing cucumber-ruby

• Upgrade gems with scripts/update-gemspec
• Bump the version number in lib/cucumber/version
• Update CHANGELOG.md with the upcoming version number and create a new Unreleased section
• Remove empty sections from CHANGELOG.md
• Commit the changes using a verified signature

  git commit --gpg-sign -am "Release X.Y.Z"
  git push
  

• Now release it: push to a dedicated release/ branch:

  git push origin main:release/vX.Y.Z
  

• Check the release has been successfully pushed to rubygems
• Finally, update the cucumber-ruby version in the
  documentation project in
  versions.yaml.