This email is in response to Chetan raising the following "May be we automate some of the steps using a shell script similar to https://github.com/apache/sling-tooling-release/blob/master/check_staged_release.sh"; in one of the recent release vote threads.
Thanks to James Thomas, we have a web-based verification tool that automates the release candidate checks so it's much easier now to verify and vote on the releases. Source available at https://github.com/jthomas/openwhisk-release-verification and you can try it out here http://apache.jamesthom.as/ per comment on Slack earlier today. And I opened a PR to add my bash scripts which I called `rcverify` here https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release/pull/254. This was previously a gist which I'll delete if the PR is accepted (see [1] for reference). [1] rcverify gist https://gist.github.com/rabbah/0f9e138c9088758c30fe31f05b893041 -r
