I've gone through the process of making release artifacts and put them here: http://people.apache.org/~yonik/solr/test_release/
This is *not* a release candidate... this is just for people to review to see what problems they can see now. A couple of additional changes would have been in a real release, including - a note of the version number in CHANGES.txt, and perhaps some release-notes type of stuff in there as well - a bump of version number in build.xml - tags, and all that jazz I think we should try to make a real release candidate by the end of next week. -Yonik