Figure out Release process

[epugh]

^ what the title says!

[adityamparikh]

When a pull request is merged, GitHub actions should publish a docker image to Docker MCP Hub https://hub.docker.com/mcp as well as to the MCP Registry https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/blob/main/docs/guides/publishing/github-actions.md?

Question on what authentication mechanism should be used https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/blob/main/docs/guides/publishing/github-actions.md#authentication-methods

[janhoy]

Any releaes must of course go through the ASF release process with a 72h voting period before we can release to Docker hub or MCP registry.

But we may do nightly builds to our area at https://nightlies.apache.org/solr/ and to our preview docker coordinates at https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/solr-nightly. If such build and publication happen on each merge or nightly is both ok I guess.

A release will have tarballs for source and binary distribution that must be signed by RM. I hope that we could pilot ASFs code signing infrastructure to auto sign distributons, should probably check with INFRA what that takes.

Docker image could be released, after passing vote through e.g. a manually triggered Github workflow run? It need not be an "official" image, but can live in apache/solr-mcp

[epugh]

@adityamparikh and I are chatting, and thinking about how to get to a 1.0 out the door. I'm proposing that we use the ATR for running the release communication/voting process, but we still manually build the artifact locally and sign it, and we of course have to manually add the artifacts to Subversion.

I don't want to wait for all the magic Github automation to happen, partly because I'm not confident of my own ability to navigate that process, and I want 1.0 to get out.

[epugh]

Tasks that we've identified that need to happen:

1. Figure out our Changelog Story.
2. Figure out how we produce our source code jar files.
3. Eric bug Tom about docuemnt on how to locally sign artifacts!
4. Aditya to open a PR for the Ref Guide introducing how to use the Solr MCP tool.