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This will take some time to propagate in which you can continue with the other steps of the release process.

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Verifying a release candidate

Following are the typical things we need to verify before voting on a release candidate. And the release manager should verify them too before calling out a vote.

• Verify Signatures and hashes
• Verify DISCLAIMER, NOTICE and LICENCE (year etc)
• Should be in format apache-$project-$version-incubating.tar.gz 
• All source file files have correct headers (Rat check should be clean - mvn verify)
  • Make sure there are no conflicting licenses (TODO: how)
• 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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