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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:20:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: 0.3 release process, again
From: ant elder <antelder@apache.org>
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jonathan Ellis<jbellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ant's points over on incubator general.
>
>> - there must be a source distribution
>> - the artifact names must include "-incubating"
>> - the distributions must be signed
>
> The confusion here is, I thought we were supposed to get release
> approval first, _then_ create and sign the official tarballs. =A0("ant
> release" does a source tarball too, and names things correctly.)
>

The release approval is by voting on the artifacts so they need to
exist first so they can be reviewed.

> (I note that http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html is
> amazingly unhelpful as a howto.)

Have you found out enough on how to do that yet? If not i can try to
give step by step instrctions.

>
>> - the distributions must include the Incubator disclaimer text
>
> What is that text?
>

For an example see:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/pivot/tags/v1.2-rc3/DISCLAIMER

   ...ant