What is it?

The Release Plugin is a plugin for Jenkins to automate several Tasks of the build process.

The source code and further information can be viewed at the GitHub Repository.

Open Source Process

Task	Status
Select open source license	AGPLv3
Validate license compatibility	DONE
Add license file to source code	DONE
Create maven build	DONE
Validate code quality (any requirements from Jenkins marketplace?)
Decide on maintenance strategy
Select plugin ID (short name in build.gradle) should neither include ~~plugin~~ nor jenkins
Upload source code to GitHub	https://github.com/inspectit-labs/release-plugin
Create jenkins-ci.org account
Send the required mail to the developers' mailing list to tell necessary information to be forked into the GitHub Jenkins organisation
Create Wiki page and add it to repository
Add maintainer information
Release plugin to jenkins-ci.org