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NOTE: In order to proceed, you MUST have svn 1.7 or higher installed! The ant build scripts require this in order to be able to apply patches on Windows platforms. On Windows, you will also need GnuPG installed (from http://www.gnupg.org/download/), and have your signing key created and installed (read this: http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing). Also needed is the utility "pscp.exe", and a properly configured public/private key signon to people.apache.org (which is required to upload artifacts; read here how to set that up: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/530/SSH_with_authentication_key_instead_of_password).
The first step of the build process is to check out the release branch into a work area. Technically it is more correct to check out the tag, but in practice that's not necessary because only the release engineer should be working on the release branch. All other development should be taking place in trunk.
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The next step is to fire off the release script itself. You will need to supply your people.apache.org username also, as well as your SSH private key:
cd myworkarea
../release-scripts/release.bat 0.6 kwright c:\passwd\kwright-people.apache.org.ppk
After being prompted a few times for your key file password, and for your people.apache.org password, your release candidate should be created and copied to an appropriate subdirectory in your user area on people.apache.org, e.g. http://people.apache.org/~kwright/apache-manifoldcf-0.6.
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Release Process 