Release Managers Onboarding

Context: A call for release managers was made in May 2020 on the dev ML

This confluence page is to list and onboard those that have expressed interest in being a Release Manager.

Requirements Checklist

GPG Key

• Do you have a RSA 4096 GPG key?
• Is the private key (and has it always been) secure? (Only stored on hardware that only you have root/admin access to?)
• Is it signed by others? [Optional]
• Is the public key added to the Cassandra's KEYS file? (Requires a jira ticket: only a PMC can review and commit)
• Is the public key available via the MIT Keyserver ?

Nexus Access

• Can you log in (using your ASF LDAP credentials) into the ASF Nexus Repository?

Reading Checklist

The project release guide.

• Cassandra's Release Guide 

ASF guides, policy, and best practices. Useful as a reference material.

• ASF Release Policy: describes how to make a release, what constitutes one, what to watch out for, and answers other FAQ
• ASF Release Best Practices: summarises the Release Policy
• ASF Release Distribution Policy: governs how releases are distributed through the channels that Infra maintains and other platforms

Help creating your GPG key.

• ASF Creating the GPG key Guide 

Optional Reading for keeping a GPG private key secure on a second device

• Using Your YubiKey with OpenPGP
• OpenPGP Key Generation With Backup

Artifactory Access (PMC Only)

• Do you have a jfrog.apache.org account (using your asf id)?

LinkedIn & Bluesky Access (PMC Only)

• Do you have access to the project's LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts?  [Optional]

Release Managers 

Committer		GPG key	Reading Checklist		ASF JFrog Access	Bluesky Access	LI Access	Cut (new) Release	Finalized Release	Drivers Release	Sidecar Release	Analytics Release
Eric Evans
Jake Luciani
Michael Shuler
Mick Semb Wever
Jordan West
Dinesh Joshi
Chris Lohfink
Vinay Chella
Sam Tunnicliffe
Aleksey Yeshchenko
Alex Petrov
Stefan Miklosovic
Berenguer Blasi
Brandon Williams