On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Chip Childers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 06:55:51PM +0530, Lakmal Warusawithana wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We are preparing for a release. I am following [1] and [2]. Is any other
>> resources for this.
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> 
>> [1] 
>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#glossary-podling-dist>
>> [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
> 
> Those are the main resources, yes.  It's best to spend a bit of time
> reading through those documents.  Please keep in mind that the incubator
> docs tend to lag behind a bit though.  Besides them, you have mentors
> around that can help answer questions. ;-)  I went through this
> process recently, so I'm happy to help.

Same here. 

The most time consuming task is getting the LICENSE and NOTICE files (for both 
source and binaries) correct. The instructions here greatly help - 
http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html

And as Chip said, mentors are your best resources, they either might have gone 
through this pain recently or have helped others go through.

Suresh


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