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• Upload all artifacts, release notes, and docs to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kafka (an svn repo, using Apache committer id/passwd)
• Go to https://repository.apache.org/#stagingRepositories, find the uploaded artifacts and release this (this will push to maven central)
• Wait for about a day for the artifacts to show up in apache mirror and maven central.
• Send out an announcement email. You will need to use your apache email address to send out the email (otherwise, it won't be delivered to announce@apache.org).
  • Log into people.apache.org with your apache id.
  • Include a paragraph in the announcement email like: "According to git shortlog <number_of_contributors> people contributed to this release: <contributors>" where:
    • number_of_contributors is determined via `git shortlog -sn --no-merges <previous_release_tag>..<current_release_tag> | wc -l` (eg `git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.8.2.02..0.9.0.0 | wc -l`)
    • contributors is determined via: `git shortlog -sn --no-merges <previous_release_tag>..<current_release_tag> | cut -f2 | tr '\n' ',' | sed -e 's/,/, /g'` (eg `git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.8.2.02..0.9.0.0 | cut -f2 | sort --ignore-case | tr '\n' ',' | sed -e 's/,/, /g'`)
  • cat mail.txt|mail -s "[ANNOUCE] ..."  announce@apache.org, users@kafka.apache.org, dev@kafka.apache.org, kafka-clients@googlegroups.com
• Add the release data to https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?kafka (must be a Kafka PMC member)
  
  

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