Sounds like these should be incorporated into a wiki page for the project
> From: bode...@apache.org
> To: lucene-net-...@incubator.apache.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:37:58 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Lucene.Net] [VOTE] Apache-Lucene-2.9.4g-incubating-RC1 Release
> (take 2)
>
> On 2012-01-18, Michael Herndon wrote:
>
> > Not be a miser, but I'm abstaining till we get a checklist for releases
> > going.
>
> You know I don't perform any checks beyond what is required by ASF rules
> and policies, I don't even verify the DLLs in the binary release are
> .NET asemblies at all.
>
> > I know that we need to check
> > svn-eof
>
> Not really required. It would be nice if the line-ends in svn were set
> to native on text files but that is no release requirement. The
> source-bundle will have Windows lineends anyway (assuming the release is
> built on Windows).
>
> > readme
>
> I didn't read it, but it sure should be sensible.
>
> > use rat - apache license in files (if there is a tutorial on how to use
> > that, I can take that over)
>
> Nothing beyond http://incubator.apache.org/rat/ - I am a developer on
> RAT so I certainly know how to work with it and I even patched RAT to
> better deal with .NET projects when creating the patches for Lucene.
>
> > docs
> > tickets
> > some form release info (whats in the release)
>
> Yep.
>
> > and I'm sure I'm missing stuff.
>
> I check the hashes and signatures match the archives, the source
> distribution matches the svn tag (running diff -rb), the LICENSE
> contains all licenses of stuff in the distribution and the NOTICE
> contains all required notices (but not more).
>
> For projects where I'm doing more than the legal sign-off I do:
>
> * build the source distribution and run all tests on it
>
> * build a binary distribution from the source distribution and check
> whether the differences between mine and the one the RM created are
> reasonable (timestamps, mostly, but for Java the .class files may be
> different for different JDK's javacs)
>
> * sometimes I try to run the tests against the artifacts of the binary
> release
>
> Stefan
