GH-50492: [R] Add release process skill#50499
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| ```r | ||
| pkgdown::build_news() | ||
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Don't merge this like this, adding code blocks as comments gets weird so we should manually apply the change to make sure we get all the backticks
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| Submit a PR to the `asf-site` branch of https://github.com/apache/arrow-site with contents of `arrow/r/docs/news/index.html` replacing `arrow-site/docs/r/news/index.html`. | ||
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| Bump the version in `r/pkgdown/assets/versions.json` and update on the `asf-site` branch too. |
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| Submit a PR to the `asf-site` branch of https://github.com/apache/arrow-site with contents of `arrow/r/docs/news/index.html` replacing `arrow-site/docs/r/news/index.html`. | |
| Bump the version in `r/pkgdown/assets/versions.json` and update on the `asf-site` branch too. | |
| Submit a PR to the `asf-site` branch of https://github.com/apache/arrow-site with contents of `arrow/r/docs/news/index.html` replacing `arrow-site/docs/r/news/index.html`. | |
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| cd ~/arrow-site | |
| git fetch upstream | |
| git checkout upstream/asf-site | |
| git checkout -b "r-25.0.0" | |
| cp ~/arrow/r/docs/news/index.html ./docs/r/news/index.html | |
| git add docs/r/news/index.html | |
| git commit -m "update R news page" | |
| git push --set-upstream origin r-25.0.0 |
If necessary, bump the version in r/pkgdown/assets/versions.json and update on the asf-site branch too.
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Don't merge this comment like this, adding code blocks as comments gets weird so we should manually apply the change to make sure we get all the backticks
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Rationale for this change
Add a Claude Code skill to guide folks through the CRAN release process, and add
.claude/to the RAT excludes.What changes are included in this PR?
.claude/skills/r-cran-release/SKILL.mdwith step-by-step CRAN release instructions.claude/*todev/release/rat_exclude_files.txtr/PACKAGING.md(covered by later steps)Are these changes tested?
No code changes to test.
Are there any user-facing changes?
No.