Hi, On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll follow up with the proper release process in a moment, [...]
Here's the sequence of steps that's needed. It's a bit rich in ceremony, but that's required for the legal protections of the ASF to kick in (i.e. the release becomes an act of the foundation instead of an individual release manager). 1. You prepare the release candidate (the source package and associated signatures, etc.). This we already have. 2. You start a VOTE thread on dev@. See [1] and [2] for good examples. 3. People review the release candidate and cast their votes accordingly. See [3] and [4] for things to consider. 4. A majority of at least three +1 votes from the (P)PMC is needed for the vote to pass. 4.1 In a normal TLP this would be sufficient, but in the Incubator an extra vote round is needed, see [5]. 4.2 To do this, start a vote on gene...@incubator.apache.org. See [6] for a good recent example. 4.3 A majority of at least three +1 votes from the IPMC are needed for the vote to pass. 5. You make the approved release available in under /dist and update the project website to point to the new release 6. You announce the release to the world! [1] http://markmail.org/message/fzmlzbvt3dgdpfrc [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/stdcxx-dev/200601.mbox/%3c43c1c0a0.7040...@roguewave.com%3e [3] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#approving-a-release [4] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-must-every-release-contain [5] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases [6] http://markmail.org/message/jelahpbnimn26fcu BR, Jukka Zitting
