Release Manager: Lai Wei
Release shepherd: Sheng Zha

Scope

Scope is still open - please add!

Release Timeline

Following timeline is based on everything goes well.(Added some buffer time)

Step	Tasks	Goal	Actual	Comments
Code Freeze and release start	Track ongoing PRs

Cut the release branch	Check license headers
	Make code changes with necessary version updates
	Cut the release branch
	Update the version on master
Test the release and tag the release	Nightly test, Jenkins CI
	RAT check
	Tag RC0

Package artifacts and validate	Create release artifacts
	Validate release package
	Test release package
	Scala release process

Begin apache voting	Start vote on dev@
	Start vote on general@

Finalizing and posting the release	Create the final release tag on github
	Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir
	Update the website using tag
	Release the official pip package
	Release the official docker images
	After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded
	Draft the offical announce email and review
	Send out the email on announce@
	Update the apache blog
	update the aws blog
	send internal announcement