Hi, > My point is that one of the committers have to be release manager since a > contributor does not have the right privileges to go through all the steps > needed.
It theory anyone can make a release, but in practice it probably needs to be a committer so they can stage the release candidates so that may make it hard for a non committer to do. It's also best if they are signed by an apache.org <http://apache.org/> email address. Thanks, Justin
