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1. You must be a PMC member / Committer in Apache NetBeans
2. You must have connected your Apache ID to Apache NetBeans GitHub via GitBox: https://gitbox.apache.org
3. You must have access to https://github.com/apache/netbeans and https://github.com/apache/netbeans-jenkins-lib/.
4. You must be able to connect to Apache CI Jenkins instance builds,
   i.e., see 

   Jira
   server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key INFRA-17082

5. You shall have a PGP KEY
6. You need to have sudo access to netbeans-vm.apache.org

Preparing code base and Jenkins TLP job

1. Tell dev mailing list that merge windows close: 

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1. Create a branch release<version> in the https://github.com/apache/netbeans. <version> looks like 113 for Apache NetBeans 11.3 full name of branch is release113
2. Create a section for release<version> in https://github.com/apache/netbeans-jenkins-lib/blob/master/meta/netbeansrelease.json (after the copy paste, read carefully to match date, change version, change position.
3. Check on Jenkins that item appears for release<version> in https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/NetBeans/job/netbeans-TLP/job/netbeans/ (all previous branches should be present).

Producing a Beta

1. Obtaining and Preparing the Beta files

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