Introduction

Using the validation script

See also the Incubator Release Checklist (which is not official policy, but may help)

Here is a template that can help you valiating a release:

Download all staged artifacts under the url specified in the release vote email
Verify the signature is correct
Check if the check is successful.
Check if the signature references an Apache email address.
Verify the SHA512 hashes.
Unzip the archive.
Verify the existence of LICENSE, NOTICE, README, RELEASE_NOTES files in the extracted source bundle.
Verify the content of LICENSE, NOTICE, README, RELEASE_NOTES files in the extracted source bundle.
Run RAT
Search for SNAPSHOT
Build the project according to the information in the README.md file.