Thanks Roman, As per the earlier thread (subject: releaseType?) and Spring conventions, it seems that these milestone releases 'M#' come before release candidates 'RC#' and not together M#.RC#. So the expected release progression is:
1.0.0-incubating.M1 1.0.0-incubating.M2 ... 1.0.0-incubating.RC1 1.0.0-incubating.RC2 ... 1.0.0-incubating.RELEASE I think Greg had asked this question as well: For such milestone releases, do we need to sign/vote/publish or should that be done only for RC and RELEASE? - Nitin ________________________________________ From: shaposh...@gmail.com <shaposh...@gmail.com> on behalf of Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 9:06 PM To: dev@geode.incubator.apache.org Subject: A few recommendations on how to produce our first RC Hi! here's a few recommendation on how to produce your first RC. Basically your MVP of sorts should be the following set of files: archive: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz GPG sig: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.asc MD5 sum: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.md5 SHA sum: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.sha in case you have strong feeling for publishing zip/bz2 archive(s) instead (or in addition to) more conventional tarballs -- that's fine. Once you've generated the above 4 files the easiest way to submit them for a vote and later allow for RC -> release promotion is to check them into the SVN dist folder corresponding to the RC ID. The first RC being 1 (or 0 depending on whether you like Algol 68 or C). E.g.: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/geode/1.0.0-incubating.M1.RC0 The dist.apache.org SVN is how ASF manages its releases. Thus if the vote on the RC passes the promotion of an RC candidate into an actual release becomes a simple matter of $ svn mv Thanks, Roman.