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ssh people.apache.org "mkdir -p ~/public_html/sentry-1.2.0-rc0"
scp * people.apache.org:~/public_html/sentry-1.2.0-rc0

Some more things to verify before sending out an email

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• Verify Signatures and hashes
• Verify DISCLAIMER, NOTICE and LICENCE (year etc)
• Should be in format apache-$project-$version-incubating.tar.gz 
• All source file have correct headers (Rat check should be clean - mvn verify)
• No jar files or the like in the release
• Can compile successfully from source
• git tag matches the released bits (diff -rf)

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