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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: branch > Recent commits > $commit_hash
   • Copy and paste NEWS change into the description box
   • Select “This is a pre-release"

2. Tag all the dependent submodules for every MXNet release. If a code-change (e.g. bug-fix) is required to a dependent sub-module then we take a branch from the tag and apply the code-change only to the branch for the sub-module so that the change is minimal. This should allow the MXNet release process to have better convergence towards a stable release.

3. Create artifacts for the release and push to the dist folder

1. The src tar - apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gx:
2. git clone --recursive http://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet
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• Clone the Repo and checkout the release branch
• remove R-package until the licensing issue is resolved

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• Remove all the .git files

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• Remove all other files of the form .* (eg .travis, .DS_Store etc)

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• on MacOS use gnu-tar

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• Try to untar it in a different type of

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• machine and try a classic build with `make`. Follow build instructions in the "Build from Source"

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• section http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/get_started/install.html

git clone git@github.com:apache/incubator-mxnet.git --recursive apache-mxnet-src-

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git checkout v0.11.0
git submodule update --init --recursive
git checkout 0.11.0.rc3
rm -rf R-package/*
rm -rf R-package
rm -rf .DS_Store
rm -rf .git*
brew install gnu-tar 
gtar -czvf apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating.tar.gz

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• apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.

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• asc:

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  • details here: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#openpgp-ascii-detach-sig

• apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.md5: Create MD5 checksum
• apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz.sha512: Create SHA checksum

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gpg --armor --output apache-mxnet-src-

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# Checkout the Apache directory in Apache distribution SVN "dev" repo

$ svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet

# select p

# Make directory for this RC in the above directory

$ cd mxnet
$ mkdir #.#.#.rc0

# Move artifacts into this folder

$ cp ../apache-mxnet-src-#.#.#.rc0-incubating.tar.gz* #.#.#.rc0

$ svn add #.#.#.rc0

$ svn commit -m "Add mxnet-#.#.#.rc0" --username "lxn2"

(mbaijal@ Clean this up)

git clone git@github.com:apache/incubator-mxnet.git --recursive

md5 apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating.tar.gz > apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating.tar.gz.md5
shasum -a 512 apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating.tar.gz > apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating
git checkout v0.11.0
git submodule update --init --recursive
git checkout 0.11.0.rc3
rm -rf R-package/*
rm -rf .DS_Store
rm -rf .git*
 
gtar -czvf apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating.tar.gz apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating

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#.#.#-incubating.RC0 folder: Create a folder for this RC in the dist folder

# Checkout the Apache directory in Apache distribution SVN "dev" repo
$ svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/

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gpg --verify .mxnet
# select p
# Make directory for this RC in the above directory
$ cd mxnet
$ mkdir #.#.#.rc0
# Move artifacts into this folder
$ cp ../apache-mxnet-src-0#.11#.0#.rc3rc0-incubating.tar.gz.asc
gsha512sum --check  ./apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc1-incubating.tar.gz.sha512
gmd5sum --check ./apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating.tar.gz.md5* #.#.#.rc0
$ svn add #.#.#.rc0
$ svn commit -m "Add mxnet-#.#.#.rc0" --username "lxn2"

Download from here and validate -  https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/

Releasing  - 

tar -zxvf apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating.tar.gz
mv apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0.rc3-incubating apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating
gtar -czvf apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating.tar.gz apache-mxnet-src-0.11.0-incubating
 
#create a directory under releases or dist/incubator ? - https://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html
svn mv https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/0.11.0.rc3/ http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/mxnet/mxnet-#.#.#.rc0

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$ brew install gpg2 coreutils
$ gpg2 --import ../KEYS
$ gpg2

gpg --verify ./apache-mxnet-src-

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gsha512sum --check  ./apache-mxnet-src-

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• • Test that a build is successful - spinning up a deep learning Ubuntu AMI will give you an environment with all dependencies to build. A `make -j $(nproc) USE_OPENCV=1 USE_BLAS=openblas USE_CUDA=1 USE_CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda USE_CUDNN=1` should do.
  • DISCLAIMER is correct, filenames include “incubating”
  • LICENSE and NOTICE files are correct and dependency licenses are acceptable

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