Release Managers Onboarding

Context: A call for release managers was made in May 2020 on the dev ML

This confluence page is to collect, coordinate, and onboard those committers that have expressed interest in being a Release Manager.

Requirements Checklist

GPG Key

• Do you have a RSA 4096 GPG key?
• Is the private key (and has it always been) secure? (Only stored on hardware that only you have (root/admin) access to?)
• Is it signed by others? [Optional]
• Is the public key added to the Cassandra's KEYS file? (Requires a jira ticket: only a PMC can review and commit)
• Is the public key available via the MIT Keyserver ?

Nexus Access

• Can you log in (using your ASF LDAP credentials) into the ASF Nexus Repository

Reading Checklist

• Cassandra's Release Guide 
• ASF Creating the GPG key Guide 
• ASF Release Policy
• ASF Release Distribution Policy
• ASF Release Best Practices
  
  Optional Reading for keeping a GPG private key secure
  • Using Your YubiKey with OpenPGP
  • OpenPGP Key Generation With Backup

Bintray Access (PMC Only)

• Do you have a Bintray account and the Apache organisation is listed here?

Twitter Access (PMC Only)

• Do you have access to @Cassandra Twiiter account (through Tweetdeck)?

Release Managers 

Committer		GPG key	Reading Checklist		Bintray	Twitter		Has Cut (new) Release
Eric Evans
Jake Luciani
Michael Shuler
Mick Semb Wever
Jordan West
Dinesh Joshi
Robert Stupp
Chris Lohfink
Vinay Chella
Sam Tunnicliffe
Aleksey Yeshchenko