kaxil commented on a change in pull request #11310:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/11310#discussion_r501602658



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 **Table of contents**
 
-- [Development Tools](#development-tools)
-  - [Airflow release signing tool](#airflow-release-signing-tool)
-- [Verifying the release candidate by PMCs 
(legal)](#verifying-the-release-candidate-by-pmcs-legal)
-  - [PMC voting](#pmc-voting)
-  - [SVN check](#svn-check)
-  - [Verifying the licences](#verifying-the-licences)
-  - [Verifying the signatures](#verifying-the-signatures)
-  - [Verifying the SHA512 sum](#verifying-the-sha512-sum)
-- [Verifying if the release candidate "works" by 
Contributors](#verifying-if-the-release-candidate-works-by-contributors)
-- [Building an RC](#building-an-rc)
-- [PyPI Snapshots](#pypi-snapshots)
-- [Make sure your public key is on id.apache.org and in 
KEYS](#make-sure-your-public-key-is-on-idapacheorg-and-in-keys)
-- [Voting on an RC](#voting-on-an-rc)
-- [Publishing release](#publishing-release)
-- [Publishing to PyPi](#publishing-to-pypi)
-- [Updating CHANGELOG.md](#updating-changelogmd)
-- [Notifying developers of release](#notifying-developers-of-release)
+- [Apache Airflow source releases](#apache-airflow-source-releases)
+  - [Apache Airflow Package](#apache-airflow-package)
+  - [Backport Provider packages](#backport-provider-packages)
+- [Prerequisites for the release manager preparing the 
release](#prerequisites-for-the-release-manager-preparing-the-release)
+  - [Upload Public keys to id.apache.org](#upload-public-keys-to-idapacheorg)
+  - [Configure PyPI uploads](#configure-pypi-uploads)
+  - [Hardware used to prepare and verify the 
packages.](#hardware-used-to-prepare-and-verify-the-packages)
+- [Apache Airflow packages](#apache-airflow-packages)
+  - [Prepare the Apache Airflow Package 
RC](#prepare-the-apache-airflow-package-rc)
+  - [Vote and verify the Apache Airflow release 
candidate](#vote-and-verify-the-apache-airflow-release-candidate)
+  - [Publish the final Apache Airflow 
release](#publish-the-final-apache-airflow-release)
+- [Backport Provider Packages](#backport-provider-packages)
+  - [Decide when to release](#decide-when-to-release)
+  - [Prepare the Backport Provider Packages 
RC](#prepare-the-backport-provider-packages-rc)
+  - [Vote and verify the Backport Providers release 
candidate](#vote-and-verify-the-backport-providers-release-candidate)
+  - [Publish the final releases of backport 
packages](#publish-the-final-releases-of-backport-packages)
 
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-# Development Tools
+# Apache Airflow source releases
 
-## Airflow release signing tool
+The Apache Airflow releases are one of the two types:
 
-The release signing tool can be used to create the SHA512/MD5 and ASC files 
that required for Apache releases.
+* Releases of the Apache Airflow package
+* Releases of the Backport Providers Packages
 
-### Execution
+## Apache Airflow Package
 
-To create a release tarball execute following command from Airflow's root.
+This package contains sources that allow the user building fully-functional 
Apache Airflow 2.0 package.
+They contain sources for:
 
-```bash
-python setup.py compile_assets sdist --formats=gztar
-```
-
-*Note: `compile_assets` command build the frontend assets (JS and CSS) files 
for the
-Web UI using webpack and yarn. Please make sure you have `yarn` installed on 
your local machine globally.
-Details on how to install `yarn` can be found in CONTRIBUTING.rst file.*
+ * "apache-airflow" python package that installs "airflow" Python package and 
includes
+   all the assets required to release the webserver UI coming with Apache 
Airflow
+ * Dockerfile and corresponding scripts that build and use an official 
DockerImage
+ * Breeze development environment that helps with building images and testing 
locally
+   apache airflow built from sources
 
-After that navigate to relative directory i.e., `cd dist` and sign the release 
files.
+In the future (Airflow 2.0) this package will be split into separate "core" 
and "providers" packages that
+will be distributed separately, following the mechanisms introduced in 
Backport Package Providers. We also
+plan to release the official Helm Chart sources that will allow the user to 
install Apache Airflow
+via helm 3.0 chart in a distributed fashion.
 
-```bash
-../dev/sign.sh <the_created_tar_ball.tar.gz
-```
+The Source releases are the only "official" Apache Software Foundation 
releases, and they are distributed
+via [Official Apache Download sources](https://downloads.apache.org/)
 
-Signing files will be created in the same directory.
+Following source releases Apache Airflow release manager also distributes 
convenience packages:
 
+* PyPI packages released via https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/
+* Docker Images released via 
https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/apache/airflow
 
-# Verifying the release candidate by PMCs (legal)
+Those convenience packages are not "official releases" of Apache Airflow, but 
the users who
+cannot or do not want to build the packages themselves can use them as a 
convenient way of installing
+Apache Airflow, however they are not considered as "official source releases". 
You can read more
+details about it in the [ASF Release 
Policy](http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html).
 
-## PMC voting
+This document describes the process of releasing both - official source 
packages and convenience
+packages for Apache Airflow packages.
 
-The PMCs should verify the releases in order to make sure the release is 
following the
-[Apache Legal Release Policy](http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html).
+## Backport Provider packages
 
-At least 3 (+1) votes should be recorded in accordance to
-[Votes on Package 
Releases](https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html#ReleaseVotes)
+The Backport Provider packages are packages (per provider) that make it 
possible to easily use Hooks,
+Operators, Sensors, and Secrets from the 2.0 version of Airflow in the 1.10.* 
series.
 
-The legal checks include:
+Once you release the packages, you can simply install them with:
 
-* checking if the packages are present in the right dist folder on svn
-* verifying if all the sources have correct licences
-* verifying if release manager signed the releases with the right key
-* verifying if all the checksums are valid for the release
+```
+pip install apache-airflow-backport-providers-<PROVIDER>[<EXTRAS>]
+```
 
-## SVN check
+Where `<PROVIDER>` is the provider id and `<EXTRAS>` are optional extra 
packages to install.
+You can find the provider packages dependencies and extras in the README.md 
files in each provider
+package (in `airflow/providers/<PROVIDER>` folder) as well as in the PyPI 
installation page.
 
-The files should be present in the sub-folder of
-[Airflow dist](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/)
+Backport providers are a great way to migrate your DAGs to Airflow-2.0 
compatible DAGs. You can
+switch to the new Airflow-2.0 packages in your DAGs, long before you attempt 
to migrate
+airflow to 2.0 line.
 
-The following files should be present (9 files):
+The sources released in SVN allow to build all the provider packages by the 
user, following the
+instructions and scripts provided. Those are also "official_source releases" 
as described in the
+[ASF Release Policy](http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html) and they 
are available
+via [Official Apache Download 
sources]https://downloads.apache.org/airflow/backport-providers/.

Review comment:
       ```suggestion
   via [Official Apache Download 
sources](https://downloads.apache.org/airflow/backport-providers/).
   ```




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