Starting a Release

Prerequisites

Release Candidates and Voting

1. Release files are uploaded to the release manager's web directory on people.apache.org.
2. The vote is started on tuscany-dev mailing list.
   1. Multiple release candidates might happen until the vote gets passed.
3. A result is mailed to tuscany-dev mailing list.
4. A vote to approve the release is then sent to IPMC (general@apache.org)

Reference

• Apache release publishing guide: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html
• ARAT: http://code.google.com/p/arat/
• Signing Releases: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html
• Release process from Apache Cayenne: http://cwiki.apache.org/CAY/release-guide.html