Hi dev@, First and foremost thank you fgreg for stepping into release management position. This is a real important part of SDAP's incubation and your leadership is not only important but crucial. OK so once you've rolled back the existing release candidate e.g. delete the Github tag's, delete the Docker images, etc. then let's think about how we can put a release management process together which complies with ASF release policy [0].
We need to start with understanding the release publishing guidance [1]. Specifically see the sections on the release manager role [2], what constitutes a valid release and then signing artifacts [4]. Once all of that has been done and all *source code *artifacts associated with the release candidate have been signed by the release manager then we move on to hosting a community VOTE [5]. Subject to a positive binding RESULT, then we progress to release artifact distribution via www.apache.org [6] and then we move on to publishing the Docker artifacts under the Apache Dockerhub Org. All of the above should be documented in a release management guide which should live on some easily accessible/editable location. In my experience, *something* always changes during release management process. That's why we document the process from beginning to end. This takes longer but saves us time and technical debt in the future. Please let me know here when you've rolled back the existing RC and are ready to move on with generating, signing and staging source code release artifacts. Thanks fgreg, and again, thanks for stepping up for release manager. lewismc [0] https://apache.org/dev/#releases [1] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html [2] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager [3] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#valid [4] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#signed [5] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#voted [6] https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#distribution_dist -- http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
