as you may be aware, incubator policy has recently changed. new releases from the incubator need to use the standard apache distribution system.
the incubator documentation is still in progress (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#release-distribution patches or feedback welcomed on general ;-) so i've volunteered to walk podlings though this process until the documentations good enough. it's getting late now for me so i'm not sure i'll be on line for responses until tommorrow. so, if you haven't already, please take a look at the existing documentation (http://www.apache.org/dev/#releases and http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#release-distribution). if there are any questions these don't answer, i'll be glad to jump in tomorrow. the first step is that i need to ensure all your old releases are archived for the historic record. so i need to know if you have any and where they are. there are a number of decisions that need to be taken by the community about layout and mirroring. it's probably a good time to start discussing this now. i also recommend that you start documenting the release process (if you haven't done so already). (apologies for being so brusk) - robert
