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Comment: Add example of changelog date

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     svn mv https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.XX https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.XX
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     svn checkout --depth immediates https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-7/ 
    and update the KEYS file there to be the same as the one used for release. (The download page has links pointing to this file).
  • Release the Maven artifacts (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/res/maven/README.txt step 4)
  • Wait for the mirrors to sync (upto 24 hours depending on what percentage of the mirrors you want to sync)
  • Update the website (e.g. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1500109)
    Note: the index and oldnews pages are sorted by date. Thus the new announcement pops up to the top of the page.
  • Update the docs (see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/site/trunk/README.txt)
  • Announce the release (e.g. http://markmail.org/message/xyantb3ozzmucdjt) to users@t.a.o, cc dev@t.a.o, announce@t.a.o, announce@a.o
  • Update the release date in the changelog to the date the files were copied to the the release area in yyyy-dd-mm format.
    E.g. "released 2013-05-03" (for stable versions), "beta, 2007-02-08" (for betas).
  • Add the version number in Bugzilla

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