Enrico>AFAIK in all of the apache projects I am contributing to as committer every Enrico>committer can sign the artifacts and be release manager
There existed META effort (which was hosted at https://checker.apache.org/#META-files), however, it looks like checker.apache.org was dropped recently by infra, so the future is not clear. META files described who must sign what so the release to be considered to be an official one. For instance, JMeter still has a META file that specifies who must sign the releases: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/jmeter/META , and there's a root file that specifies who signs per-project META files: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/META/ROOT The current META/ROOT contains # pmc calcite [chair] francischuang key bbe44e923a970ab7 signs calcite/META Vladimir
