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• Make sure RCs are hosted @ https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/sentry
• Should be in format apache-$project-$version-incubating.tar.gz 
• Verify Signatures and hashes
• git tag matches the released bits (diff -rf)
• Can compile successfully from source
• Verify DISCLAIMER, NOTICE and LICENCE (year etc)
• All 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
  
  

Running the vote

Call for sentry dev list votes

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Send an email to Voting has to be done on dev@sentry.incubator.apache.org  list followed by general@incubator.apache.org  For example,. You can close the vote after voting period expires and you accumulate sufficient votes.

Call for voting on dev list (PPMC)

To: dev@sentry.incubator.apache.org
Subject: [VOTE] Release Sentry incubating version 1.2.0
This is the incubator release of Apache Sentry, version 1.2.0-incubating. 
It fixes the following issues: http://s.apache.org/VlU

Source files : https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/sentry/sentry-1.2.0/

Tag to be voted on (rc#): https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-sentry/?p=incubator-sentry.git;a=commit;h=<commit-hash-of-the-tag>
Sentry's KEYS containing the PGP key we used to sign the release:
https://people.apache.org/keys/group/sentry.asc (or http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/sentry/KEYS for non committers)

Note that this is a source only release and we are voting on the source: tag=release-1.2.0, SHA=5e6e34202b26d7d5bc1a41e3dd4ad0cacd123e3f (You can get the hash of the tag by doing "git rev-list release-1.4.0 | head -n 1" )

Vote will be open for 72 hours.

[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why)


Thanks,
$RM 

Need 3 +1 votes from PPMC members. Additionally need 3 +1 votes from IPMC members. The vote has to be called first on the dev list. Upon receiving 3 +1s from the PPMC, the vote should be called on general@incubator.apache.org.

Binding votes are from IPMC member, and non-binding votes are from PPMC members.

reply to the voting thread and prefixing [RESULT] to the subject line with the results. 

Voting is now closed and has passed with the following tally.

PPMC +1: Patrick Hunt, Arvind Prabhakar,Xuefu Zhang, Jarcec Cecho
Others +1: Ashish Paliwal

A vote will now be called on general@incubator.apache.org.
 
$RM

Voting on @general

The vote should be now called on general@incubator.apache.org for IPMC votes. Binding votes are from IPMC member, and non-binding votes are from PPMC members.

This is the first incubator release of Apache Sentry, version
1.2.0-incubating.
 
<Same as above...>

A vote on releasing this package has already passed in Apache Sentry
PPMC[1] including  +1 votes from our PPPMC (XXX, XXX, XXX ...).

Vote will be open for 72 hours.

[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why)

<RM>

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   By You can close the vote after voting period expires and you accumulate sufficient votes.   By convention, vote closing email is sent to general@incubator.apache.org by replying to the voting thread and prefixing [RESULT] to the subject line.  This method keeps the closing email in the same thread with the voting emails for better record keeping in the mail archive.

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