Hi!
here's a few recommendation on how to
produce your first RC. Basically your MVP
of sorts should be the following set of files:
archive: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz
GPG sig: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.asc
MD5 sum: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.md5
SHA sum: geode-1.0.0-incubating.M1-src.tar.gz.sha
in case you have strong feeling for publishing
zip/bz2 archive(s) instead (or in addition to)
more conventional tarballs -- that's fine.
Once you've generated the above 4 files the easiest
way to submit them for a vote and later allow for
RC -> release promotion is to check them into
the SVN dist folder corresponding to the RC ID. The first
RC being 1 (or 0 depending on whether you like
Algol 68 or C). E.g.:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/geode/1.0.0-incubating.M1.RC0
The dist.apache.org SVN is how ASF manages its
releases. Thus if the vote on the RC passes the promotion
of an RC candidate into an actual release becomes
a simple matter of
$ svn mv
Thanks,
Roman.
