Repository: incubator-beam-site
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/asf-site 00c6a7a41 -> 268cadca4


Add note about gpg-agent to release-guide


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Branch: refs/heads/asf-site
Commit: b9c9d47ea6534f0e194f58d8ac9bda887ce73fae
Parents: 00c6a7a
Author: Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha.kret...@gmail.com>
Authored: Mon Oct 24 18:06:54 2016 +0200
Committer: Dan Halperin <dhalp...@google.com>
Committed: Mon Nov 7 15:04:36 2016 -0800

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 src/contribute/release-guide.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-beam-site/blob/b9c9d47e/src/contribute/release-guide.md
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diff --git a/src/contribute/release-guide.md b/src/contribute/release-guide.md
index b0d4dca..3fbd61f 100644
--- a/src/contribute/release-guide.md
+++ b/src/contribute/release-guide.md
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ Set up a few environment variables to simplify Maven 
commands that follow. This
     RC_NUM="1"
     TAG="v${VERSION}-RC${RC_NUM}"
 
+Before running the command to prepare the release you might have to start 
`gpg-agent` so that your key can be unlocked by your passphrase for signing the 
release. You can do this with something like this:
+
+    eval $(gpg-agent --daemon --no-grab --write-env-file $HOME/.gpg-agent-info)
+    export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+    export GPG_AGENT_INFO
+
 Use Maven release plugin to build the release artifacts, as follows:
 
     mvn release:prepare \

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