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- Bulk update Jira to unassign from this release all issues that are open non-blockers and send follow-up notification to the developer list that this was done.
- Run 'ant ratmvn clean apache-rat:check -Phadoop-2' to and examine the generated report for any files, especially .java files should be having Apache license headers. Add . Note also, that each individual component will have a rat.txt inside it when you run this - be sure to check ql/target/rat.txt, for example. Add the license header to any file that is missing it (open a jira and submit a patch).
- Update copyright date in NOTICE. If the components mentioned in them have updated version, you would need to update the copyright dates for those. (Thejas comment: It sounds like entries are needed in NOTICE only if the license requires such attribution . See - http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice.)
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