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0) Make sure you are using JDK 6
1) Your Key needs to be signed into the KEYS file http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS^{Image Removed}
2) clone the repository to kafka-X.Y.Z-src
3) checkout the branch to release if releasing not off trunk
4) java -jar ../../apache-rat-0.8/apache-rat-0.8.jar (forgot to-do this in rc1,2,3 will do before running 4)
5) tag the branch and append (git tag -a releaseVersion) the "release notes" from JIRA
6) git push --tags
7) now get rid of git, rm -fr .git/* && rmdir .git && rm -f .gitignore
8) cd ..
9) tar -czvf kafka-X.Y.Z-src.tgz kafka-X.Y.Z-src/*
10) sign the src

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11) scp kafka_X.Y.Z-src* to a folder on a web server
12) ssh in a virtual machine, been using http://vagrantup.com^{Image Removed}
13) wget the file
14) tar -xvf kafka-X.Y.Z-src.tgz
15) verify signings and hashes
16) run quick start
17) cd kafka-X.Y.Z-src && ./sbt release-tar
18) sign the binary

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1. add the html version of release notes
   vi RELEASE-NOTES.html
   Go to Apache JIRA and click on the version X.Y.Z
   (i.e. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA/fixforversion/12317243^{Image Removed})
   Click Release Notes

20) upload files to directory for voting
21) ./sbt "++2.8.0 publish"
22) ./sbt "++2.8.2 publish"
23) ./sbt "++2.9.1 publish"
24) ./sbt "++2.9.2 publish"
25) ./sbt "++2.10.1 publish"
26) close nexus staging if everything checks out
27) call VOTE
28) if VOTE failure then DROP staged artifacts from Nexus, if VOTE success then RELEASE artifacts to Maven Central
29) VOTE Succeeded, more to-dos
a) in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist^{Image Removed} copy new artifacts into X.Y.Z folder and remove previous releases folder (all older releases are in archive)
b) change site to include the new download link from mirrors and change last release to use archive
c) send ANNOUNCE to apache, users and dev lists