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Comment: added info on setting version as released on the JIRA site

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  • place the release artifact in /www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/vcl on people.apache.org
  • ensure the artifact has permissions 664 and is owned by the incubator group
  • wait 24 hours for the artifact to propagate to the mirrors before announcing the release
    • ideally, a test download should be done from the mirror and a check of the sums and signatures should be done
  • After successfully performing a test download from the mirror, announcements should be made
    • on the vcl-dev@ list
    • on the vcl-user@ list
    • update currently listed version and download link on confluence Index page
    • (update this list as the community grows)
  • Set the newly released version to the Release status in JIRA so that people will be able to see it as released when reporting bugs
    • Go to the JIRA site
    • click Manage under the Versions section
    • In the Operations column, click the Release link for the specified version

IMPORTANT: Once a release is copied to the dist location, it must not be modified. This can signal that an attack is being performed. If an error is found, a new .Z release should be made.