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Sending Release For Vote

After the community agrees that the codebase is ready for a release, release manager should send the release . Release should be sent for a vote.

Subject The email subject should be "[VOTE] Apache Ignite <version> <rc>", for example e.g. "[VOTE] Apache Ignite 1.5.0.final RC3". Here  Here is the sample email which can help to identify steps that are required.

Dear Sirs!

We have uploaded release candidate to
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ignite/1.5.0.final-rc3/

This is very important release containing initial versions of Ignite.NET
and Ignite C++ and many other important features.

Tag name is
1.5.0.final-rc3

1.5.0 changes:
* Ignite.NET: Initial Release.
* Ignite C++: Initial Release.
* Massive performance improvements for cache operations and SQL.
* Added new binary cache object marshalling implementation.
* Added IgniteSemaphore data structure.
* Added MQTT Streamer.
* Added Twitter Streamer.
* Added Ignite Sink (integration with Apache Flume).
* Fixed optimistic serializable transactions: implemented "deadlock-free"
locking algorithm.
* Fixed failover for continuous queries.
* Fixed compilation and runtime errors under OpenJDK and IBM JDK.
* Fixed Integer.size limitation for cache.
* Fixed and improved cache types configuration.
* Fixed cache rebalancing.
* Many stability and fault-tolerance fixes.
* Added example to demonstrate the usage of EntryProcessor.

Complete list of closed issues:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20IGNITE%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.5%20AND%20status%20%3D%20closed

DEVNOTES
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ignite.git;a=blob_plain;f=DEVNOTES.txt;hb=refs/tags/1.5.0.final-rc3

RELEASENOTES
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ignite.git;a=blob_plain;f=RELEASE_NOTES.txt;hb=refs/tags/1.5.0.final-rc3

Please start voting.

+1 - to accept Apache Ignite 1.5.0.final-rc3
0 - don't care either way
-1 - DO NOT accept Apache Ignite 1.5.0.final-rc3 (explain why)

This vote will go for 72 hours.

Release Verification

Before sending vote (esp. +1) everyone should do the following:

• Check that sha1 & md5 checksum is correct. 

  Code Block
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  sha1sum -c *.sha1 md5sum -c *.md5

• Check that signature is correct.

  Code Block
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  gpg --verify-files *.asc

• Check that version is correct.

• Check licenses from the source code.

  Code Block
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  mvn clean validate -DskipTests=true -P check-licenses

• Build the binary releases from the source code.

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  mvn clean package -DskipTests -Dignite.edition=hadoop mvn clean package -DskipTests

• Do some trivial checks, e.g. start local topology, run several examples from binaries gained at previous step. Unpacked binaries can be found at sources/target/release-package

...

• Upload documentation to https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ignite/site/trunk/releases/<version>

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  svn import apache-ignite-fabric-<version>-bin/docs https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ignite/site/trunk/releases/<version> -m "new Release (<version>)"

• Update https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ignite/site/trunk/download.html (add new release to tables and mark them as latest, if necessary)

• Move release to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/ignite/<version> 

  Code Block
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  svn mv https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ignite/<version><rc> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/ignite/<version> -m "Release <version>"

• Create Release tag from RC tag

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  git tag -a <version> -m "<version>" git push origin <version>

• Send an email with subject "[RESULT] [VOTE] Apache Ignite <version> Release (<rc>)", for example "[RESULT] [VOTE] Apache Ignite 1.4.0 Release (RC1)" and body similar to: 

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  Hello! Apache Ignite 1.4.0 release (RC1) has been accepted. 9 "+1" votes received. Here are the votes received: - Denis Magda (binding) - Anton Vinogradov (binding) - Alexey Kuznetsov (binding) - Sergi Vladykin (binding) - Gianfranco Murador (binding) - Vladimir Ozerov (binding) - Raul Kripalani (binding) - Konstantin Boudnik (binding) - Chandresh Pancholi Here is the link to vote thread - http://apache-ignite-developers.2346864.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-Apache-Ignite-1-4-0-Release-RC1-tp3474.html   Ignite 1.4.0 successfuly released to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/ignite/1.4.0/ Thanks!