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• tag all the files with a new RC tag, e.g. v2_35_3_RC11_RC1
  • NB1. Don't remove a intermediate RC tag until all positive vote for new release.
  • NB2. Tag is immutable, if you must cancel and recreate a RC tag, add a new mark like v2_5_1_RC1a
• extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
• download jars needed to build: "ant download_jars"
• create distribution files:
  • ant distribution -lib=<libextra> -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
  • sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
    • ex. gpg2 -u <id_key> -ba jakarta-jmeter-2.5.1_src.tgz
    • ex. gpg2 -u <id_key> -ba jakarta-jmeter-2.5.1_src.zip
    • ex. gpg2 -u <id_key> -ba jakarta-jmeter-2.5.1.tgz
    • ex. gpg2 -u <id_key> -ba jakarta-jmeter-2.5.1.zip
• Generate RAT report (example on Linux with Java)
  • java -jar $RAT_HOME/apache-rat-0.7.jar ./jakarta-jmeter-2.5.1.tgz > rat-report-jmeter-2.5.1RC1.txt
    

Vote on release

• upload to temporary location (e.g. personal dir)
  • cd public_html ; mkdir jmeter-m.n
  • cd jmeter-m.n
  • mkdir dist
  • copy archives, sigs and hashes to dist
  • check hashes (before / after uploads)
  • Install the site docs: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/jmeter/tags/vm_nxx/docs
  • Extract Javadocs: unzip -x jmeter-m.n.o.zip '*/docs/api/*' and move to docs/api

• Wiki Markup
  send round \[VOTE\] e-mail to dev and general AT jakarta

• Wait for any feedback; address any issues raised, if necessary by creating another release tag
• If at least 3 PMC votes, then continue

• Wiki Markup
  send round \[VOTE\] \[RESULT\] e-mail to same mailing lists

• Copy the RC tag to the release tag
  

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