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1. You must be a PMC member in Apache NetBeans.
2. You must have connected your Apache ID to Apache NetBeans GitHub via GitBox: https://gitbox.apache.org.
3. You must have access to https://github.com/apache/netbeans and https://github.com/apache/netbeans-jenkins-lib/.
4. You must be able to connect to Apache CI Jenkins instance builds, i.e., see 

   Jira
   server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key INFRA-17082

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5. You must have a PGP KEY (http://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution.html#sigs-and-sums) for which the public key must be here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/netbeans/KEYS.
6. You need to have sudo access to netbeans-vm1.apache.org (Eric Barboni Neil C Smith Laszlo Kishalmi has this, at least).

Branching, builds and release candidate overview.

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