Thank you. I've no idea why I can't comment on wiki. Frankly speaking, I would love to minimize the manual steps, and it looks like there are a lot of them left.
> do not update the version in build.xml yet; master branch should remain a SNAPSHOT This should probably be removed. >Clean the working space before. ./gradlew :src:dist:clean This should not be needed. >Use -Pasf to use the ASF GitBox repository (indeed of GitHub) It should be "to use ASF Git and Nexus servers instead of test stub environment". >Edit HEADER.html to modify with new version number Do we need to update HEADER.html with a new version? What if we just remove the version number from the HEADER? >If necessary, update the META file with your GPG key id (if you act as the release manager >for the first time. Please visit https://checker.apache.org/doc/README.html Unfortunately, checker.apache.org has been retired. I suggest we remove META and checker steps. >Maven Release I believe the steps are integrated into gradlew publishDist, so they are not needed in case publishDist works. Vladimir
