With Andy's help and his Release Process notes I was able to get my first release candidate cut and out for vote :-D
I ran into a few bits and pieces among the way so I made notes as I was going and I have now updated the Release Process [1] page to document the process more thoroughly and add clarifications/notes where I felt they were needed. I also took the time to apply wiki markup so hopefully it is a bit easier to read and jump to specific sections now Rob [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JENA/ProcessRelease
