Release process.

Make sure it passes the apache rat tool.

mvn clean apache-rat:check

Sign the tarball

gpg2  --armor --output ambari-{release_number}-incubating.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig ambari-{release_number}-incubating.tar.gz

gpg --print-mds ambari-{release_number}-incubating.tar.gz > ambari-{release_number}-incubating.tar.gz.mds

Upload the artifacts to your apache home:

The artifacts then need to be copied over to public_html/ambari-release-name-rc_i_/

Call for a vote on the ambari-dev mailing list with something like this:

I have created a ambari-** release candidate.
SVN source tag (r***) http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ambari/branches/branch-

/

Staging site: http://people.apache.org/~mahadev/ambari-***

PGP release keys (signed using 8EE2F25C) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x0DFF492D8EE2F25C

One can look into the issues fixed in this release at https://issues.apache.org/jira/**

Vote will be open for 72 hours.

[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why)