In message <aanlktimb6ffnvpgmstycklxmnm5znmmeksxjopxs6...@mail.gmail.com>, Ray Chen writes: > > Hi Mark, > Does release manager must be a PMC?
No. See: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager > If not, maybe I can take the responsibility. That would be great. > However, I don't know much about how to do it, I think we need some > transferring work. Ask here if you have questions. My activity as release manager for previous releases was something like ... Suggest dates, announce freezes, encourage people to do testing and move things along a bit when people send test results, work to resolve release critical issues, produce signed source artifacts, start a vote, conclude the vote and produce signed binaries. The scripts I use to create linux source and binary artifacts are in svn at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/harmony/standard/tools/release I do the equivalent manual process for both windows platforms. The last crucial part is populating the /dist/ tree for mirroring. You need to be careful doing this so as to avoid messing up lots of mirrors. I tend to make the tree elsewhere then check that it matches the size/shape of the previous release tree before using rsync to put it in to /dist/. Just ask if you have question about any of the process. Regards, Mark.
