On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:04:08PM -0400, Suresh Marru wrote: > The comprehensive release document is at - > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html > > The key things are to make sure: > * All source code has proper (ASF) license headers. If no one gets to it > within next week, I will help with this on 23rd. > * Getting the LICENSE and NOTICE files right - this might help - > http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html > * Properly signing the releases (with KEYS in right place) and uploading > artifacts to nexus repo and such. > > The most time consuming aspect for the first release in ASF is getting the > LICENSE and NOTICE file populated for binary distribution including all > bundled transitive dependencies.
Suggestion from the peanut gallery: I strongly recommend using Apache Whisker [1] to help with this. It's a bit rough around the edges, but being able to work work the licensing metadata in XML files and generate LICENSE and NOTICE files from that data is useful. It takes a little bit more time than just putting the legal docs together by hand, but I've found it to be worth the time spent. [1] http://creadur.apache.org/whisker/
