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1. • Provide the release tag in the form of “v#.#.#.rc0” where 0 means it’s the first release candidate
   • Select the commit by clicking Target: master > Recent commits > $commit_hash
   • Copy and paste NEWS change into the description box
   • Select “This is a pre-release"
   • Source packages will be created. Download the .tar.gz to name it "apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz"
2. Create remaing artifacts for the release and push to the dist folder
   • apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.asc: Create OpenGPG compatible ASCII armored detached signature http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#openpgp-ascii-detach-sig
   • apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.md5: Create MD5 checksum http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#md5
     • $ md5 apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz > apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.md5
   • apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.sha512: Create SHA checksum
     • $ shasum -a 512 apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz > apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.sha512
     : Create SHA checksum http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#sha-checksum
   • KEYS: Add your public signing key to the dist folder
   • #.#.#-incubating.RC0 folder: Create a folder for this RC in the dist folder

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Example (performed on a Macbook Pro: brew install gpg2 coreutils):

$ svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet && cd mxnet/#.#.#.rc0

$ brew install gpg2 coreutils
$ gpg2 --import ../KEYS
$ gpg2 --verify apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.asc

$ gsha256sum gsha512sum --check apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.sha256 sha512
$ gmd5sum --check apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.md5

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