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1. 'ant dist' works from the unpacked source archives
2. Jar manifests contain LICENSE and NOTICE
3. Jar manifests have the following properties:

Specification-Vendor
Specification-Title
Specification-Version
Implementation-Vendor
Implementation-Title
Implementation-Version

TODO: Do we need Extension-Name, Implementation-Vendor-Id as well?

Make a Release Candidate

Bump version number

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• Description of the project
• Any major changes (otherwise see CHANGES)
• Any compatibility issues (and mention if none)
• Any upgrading procedures needed
• Make another note of the required Java version

Tag the RC

 svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/incubator/wave/trunk wave-0.3-RC1 

Make the RC

Run

 ant release 

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TODO: sign?
Upload the src+bin tar+zip somewhere so that it can be found.
Either put in your space at https://people.ap.ache.org/~name/, or make a folder and host in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/wave.

Vote for release

Send a vote mail for RC

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