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new c522207ad docs: make sure release maintainer updates arrow clone
(#4607)
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commit c522207ad3e14b6e9633cac498d90d8b02a5b838
Author: David Li <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 27 23:25:08 2026 -0700
docs: make sure release maintainer updates arrow clone (#4607)
ADBC 24 overwrote the RPM repository metadata because I used an older
copy of apache/arrow, which was out of sync.
---
docs/source/development/releasing.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/source/development/releasing.rst
b/docs/source/development/releasing.rst
index 6ae727576..18ec28df9 100644
--- a/docs/source/development/releasing.rst
+++ b/docs/source/development/releasing.rst
@@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ Before creating a Release Candidate
./dev/release/assign-milestone.sh
+4. Create a fresh clone of the latest apache/arrow repo, which is used by
several steps below.
+
+ .. warning:: Make sure an up-to-date clone is used, so that the Linux
packaging scripts in particular are in sync, else there is the possibility of
corrupting the shared Linux package repositories.
+
+ .. code-block::
+
+ git clone [email protected]:apache/arrow
+
Check Nightly Verification Job
------------------------------
@@ -155,6 +163,7 @@ Create the Release Candidate tag from the updated
maintenance branch
# <rc-number> starts at 0 and increments every time the Release Candidate
is burned
# so for the first RC this would be: dev/release/01-prepare.sh 1.0.0 0
+ # make sure <arrow-dir> is up-to-date with apache/arrow:main
dev/release/01-prepare.sh <arrow-dir> <rc-number>
git push -u apache apache-arrow-adbc-<release>-rc<rc-number> maint-<release>
@@ -187,6 +196,8 @@ Build source and binaries and submit them
#
# This reuses release scripts in apache/arrow. So you need to
# specify cloned apache/arrow directory.
+
+ # make sure <arrow-dir> is up-to-date with apache/arrow:main
dev/release/05-linux-upload.sh <arrow-dir> <rc-number>
# Start verifications for binaries and wheels
@@ -347,6 +358,8 @@ Be sure to go through on the following checklist:
# specify cloned apache/arrow directory.
#
# dev/release/post-05-linux.sh ../arrow 0
+
+ # make sure <arrow-dir> is up-to-date with apache/arrow:main
dev/release/post-05-linux.sh <arrow-dir> <rc-number>
.. dropdown:: Update R packages
@@ -481,6 +494,8 @@ Be sure to go through on the following checklist:
.. code-block:: Bash
# dev/release/post-12-bump-versions.sh ../arrow
+
+ # make sure <arrow-dir> is up-to-date with apache/arrow:main
dev/release/post-12-bump-versions.sh <arrow-dir>
.. dropdown:: Publish release blog post
